单词 | twittering |
释义 | twitteringn.1 1. a. The action of laughing, esp. in a somewhat suppressed or restrained manner; the sound of such laughter; tittering, giggling, sniggering. Cf. twitter v.1 3. Now somewhat rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > [noun] > giggling or tittering teeheeing?a1300 giggling?1518 tittering1637 twittering1654 titteration1753 gigglement1820 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. viii. 218 These were dresses not disproved by our Fore-Mothers; though if one should now appeare so, what twittering and peeping through the Fingers we should have? 1684 Parl. Women 15 What a twittering, and giggling, and teighing, there was from one end of the Room to the other. 1711 E. Ward Life Don Quixote II. xxx. 169 Your Shoulder dabs have spoil'd my Laughter, and stop'd my twittering hereafter. 1874 Bradford Observer 15 Dec. 2/7 Suppressed twittering reaching his ear from the gallery. 2003 Illawarra (New S. Wales) Mercury (Nexis) 5 June 28 The sound of nervous twittering erupting from the audience during a murder scene is not the response any director would eagerly seek. b. The light, tremulous chirruping or warbling of a bird or birds; an instance of this. Cf. twitter v.1 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [noun] > twitter or chirp > action of chatteringa1250 writelingc1275 jargoning?a1366 chitteringc1374 jargonc1386 chirpingc1440 chirming1481 garrulingc1550 chirruping1579 twittering1773 twitteration1805 chippering1879 1773 J. Herries Elements Speech i. vii. 83 The bleating of sheep, the twittering of birds, the snarling of the dog. 1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 234 Will the sweet warbler of the live-long night..Forget his harmony with rapture heard, To learn the twitt'ring of a meaner bird? 1834 Cape of Good Hope Lit. Gaz. Apr. 52 A trickling murmur that mingles well with the..cry of the beckbecary, and the twittering of the graceful sugar-birds. 1877 W. Black Green Pastures & Piccadilly I. ii. 21 The twittering of the young starlings in their nests. 1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood v. 92 He was in the midst of small birds who made a cheerful twittering from the greening boughs. 1935 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 13 Jan. While feathered twitterings from the cliff-clung trees Soft scold remonstrantly the fading light. 2001 S. Birdsell Russländer iii. 345 She grew used to the stillness that radiated above the land like heat shimmer, a stillness punctuated by the twittering of tomtits nesting in a tree outside her window. c. Any light, tremulous sound likened to that made by a bird, such as singing, music, chatter, etc. ΚΠ 1824 C. Lamb in London Mag. Nov. 482/2 Chords responsive to the twitterings of that slender image of a voice. 1877 S. Baring-Gould Myst. Suffering 87 The twanging of fiddles and twittering of flutes. 1931 Manch. Guardian 2 Mar. 6/2 She silenced me by her twittering and stammering. 1972 Spectator 30 Sept. 512/2 We started with persistent electronic twittering and..ended with a muted evocation of an aerial bombardment. 2015 Washington Post (Nexis) 1 May c6 A collage of pan-tonal twitterings with lots of tuned percussion and gentle sound effects from the strings. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > longing or yearning > [noun] ondeeOE yearningeOE longingOE forlonginga1250 mourningc1300 yering13.. eye-seke?c1500 panting1580 greening1584 smackeringa1586 brame1590 languora1599 earning1603 lingering1608 yawning1635 tantalizing1640 slavering1642 longingness1651 tantalization1654 twittering1668 hankering1678 honing1725 lech1796 yearna1797 languishment1817 yearningness1839 hanker1881 tantalizingness1889 yen1906 1668 C. Sedley Mulberry-garden v. i Though you had a twittering to Althea, you will make ne'er the worse husband to Victoria. 1672 Ann. Love i. 39 Had..the Empress suspected, that the twittering she had for the Duke, would have made her forget all her obligations to her self [etc.]. a1679 Earl of Orrery Guzman (1693) i. 5 Thou know'st I have still had a Twittering to be a Cottager of Parnassus. 1692 R. L'Estrange Fables cccxxxii. 289 A Widow that had a Twittering toward a second Husband. b. The action or an instance of trembling, shaking, or quivering. Cf. twitter v.1 2b. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > manifestation of emotion > [noun] > trembling with emotion trembling1303 thrilla1680 twittering1682 strumming1822 shiver1863 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > [noun] > trembling or quivering trembling1303 bevering1398 brawling?a1400 tremefaction1598 trepidation1605 warbling1621 quavering1635 tremulation1651 tremblement1677 twittering1682 diddering1687 thrilling1747 quaving1825 dither1878 1682 N. Tate Ingratitude of Common-wealth iv. 43 He has set me in terrible Twittering, My Heart beats still. 1862 W. Collins Let. 10 Oct. in W. M. Clarke Secret Life W. Collins (1996) ix. 102 No confusion in my brains, but a sickness, faintness and universal tremblings—startled by the slightest noise—more nervous twitterings last night, little sleep—sick feeling and taste of coffee. 1902 J. H. Clarke Dict. Pract. Materia Medica II. 1081 Violent twittering before eyes. 1934 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 115 399 The object of the present work was to discover the cause of twittering in egg white. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). twitteringn.2 The action or practice of posting on the social networking service Twitter; use of Twitter.Tweeting is the more common term; cf. tweeting n. ΚΠ 2006 @biz 26 Mar. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Sometimes twittering feels kinda like taking a text based photo. 2018 Southland (N.Z.) Express (Nexis) 10 May In this day and age of typing, texting and twittering, it is even more important to remember to talk with one another. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). twitteringadj. 1. Of a bird: that gives a call consisting of repeated light tremulous sounds; chirruping, warbling; (also) of the nature of, or characterized by, such sounds. Later also of a person: that talks rapidly or volubly; chattering, gossiping. Cf. twitter v.1 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [adjective] > singing or chirping chatteringa1250 chantinga1529 chippering1593 pipient1607 chirping1611 twittering1628 chittering1821 weeting1852 chirming1854 garrulous1854 1628 T. May tr. Virgil Georgicks iv. 126 Before the spring with flowers the meadows guild, Or twittering Swallowes on the rafters build. 1772 J. R. Forster in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 407 They [sc. Black Cap Titmice] make a twittering noise. 1785 S. J. Pratt Misc. I. 265 The twittering songsters hail their season nigh. 1827 T. Hood Plea Midsummer Fairies xxxi, in Plea Midsummer Fairies & Other Poems 16 We gather in loud choirs the twittering race. 1879 New Eng. Jrnl. Educ. 9 435/1 The jaded, hot, twittering crowd that are only able to listen during the pauses of conversation. 1904 Auk 21 61 From time to time we would fall in with wandering flocks of Crossbills, the dipping flight and twittering notes on the wing calling to mind the Goldfinch. 1995 S. Howatch Absolute Truths ii. 54 She was only too keen to leave behind the twittering gossips of Cambridge. 2010 Times 19 June 83/3 Linnets: these twittering finches are on the RSPB's ‘red list’ of endangered birds. 2. That trembles or quivers, as with fear, excitement, etc.; characterized or affected by trembling or quivering; tremulous, shaking. Cf. twitter v.1 2b. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > [adjective] > nervously excited or agitated high-wrought1579 feverous1587 tremulous1611 feverish1637 overwound1640 gestient1644 overwrought1648 twittering1648 fevereda1657 tumultuous1667 wrought-up1688 flustered1743 trepidatinga1774 flurried1775 wrought1778 riled1825 tête montée1825 worked up1831 tumultuating1854 trepidant1891 tremorous1897 wroughted1905 goosy1906 hotted-up1923 steamed1923 spooky1926 antsy-pantsy1944 antsy1950 agitato1964 amped1967 wired1970 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > [adjective] > trembling or quivering tremblinga1400 aspen?c1412 quavering?a1439 didderingc1440 wavering1488 quavery1519 quiveringa1547 warbling1549 tremble1568 quiverish1582 tremefacting1599 aguisha1602 tremulous1611 twittering1648 brandishing1658 micant1661 shivery1747 shivering1762 tremulating1813 dithing1818 dithering1821 quivery1833 tremulant1837 trembly1846 thrilling1850 trepidatory1881 shuddering1893 doddery1919 1648 Mercurius Elencticus No. 36. 282 The Scots and Sir Marmaduke Langdale are advanced and marched a good way into Yorkshire & Lancash. which hath put the saints into a very twittering condition. 1678 T. Rymer Trag. Last Age 85 I was lately in a twittering fear for you, But now I confess myself hen-hearted. 1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 1257 I am in a twittering case, inter sacrum saxumque sto. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 75 The sun now sinks behind the woodland green, And twittering spangles glow the leaves between. 1835 J. M. Wilson Hist. Tales Borders I. 317/2 I more than once observed the twittering streak of satisfaction and delight pass owre his cheeks. 1884 R. L. Stevenson Let. to Henley Nov. (1899) I. 335 Hardly able to come downstairs for twittering knees. 1936 T. S. Eliot Burnt Norton in Coll. Poems 189 Not here Not here the darkness, in this twittering world. 2005 A. Basso Wedding Deception xvi. 277 Her voice was steady, but her twittering hands let Rebecca know that Anne had taken note of their father's fire-and-brimstone look. Derivatives ˈtwitteringly adv. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > [adverb] > tremblingly waveringlyc1400 tremblingly1552 quirily1582 quaveringly1594 quiveringly1594 tremulously1736 twitteringly1810 a-shiver1840 a-tremble1856 a-thrill1879 a-quiver1883 1810 ‘An Old Whig’ New Crisis 50 He twitteringly said: ‘His majesty would not hesitate to contribute..to restore to the commerce of the United States, its wonted activity.’ 1860 W. H. Russell My Diary in India 1858–9 I. xvi. 255 A large zigzag fire of musketry goes twitteringly along the lines of the trenches. 2001 Sunday Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 9 Sept. 17 The mag is brimful of consumer nonsense,..including twitteringly inane features about hairstyles. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11654n.22006adj.1628 |
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