What is "chitters"

Usage examples of "chitters".

By the time Web and Raven pulled up, a small crowd of animals, fairly dancing with excitement, was quite ready to pounce on the newcomers with chitters and chirps and clucks and boinks of joy.

Their chirps and chitters took on a hushed quality, but their eyes were bright and active.

While there was nothing in the tones of her chitters, clicks, and ticks that corresponded to human speech, Corsi had the impression it was something along the lines of a benediction.

Several voices were raised above the general buzz of clicks and chitters, all of them apparently calling out similar phrases.

The chitters, growls, and screeches of forest animals seemed more menacing.

At her noisy approach, a chorus of squawks and scolding chitters erupted from the trees ahead.

He was straining to see something in the pitch of thick undergrowth, out there, unspeakable secrets and nightly chitters quickened in the mountain dark.

Then the child pulls back his lips to show solid square monkey teeth, chitters loudly, and scampers across the room to climb the green curtains with his human hands and hairy, curving, prehensile feet.

She reaches up toward the chimp, who chitters at her from my face and then suddenly leaps at her.

He had turned into it at once, walking against the moist breeze, since that might well come from the outer world and mark a route of escape, and he had continued with angry chitters and curses to play his impulsively assumed role of crotchety, half-mad rat-bravo or rogue-rat.

A rushed sequence of chitters and squeaks issued from his tunic in reply.

It wasn't one of the chitters or clanks that the ship occasionally made.