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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
atwitter

1833, from a- (1) + twitter.

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atwitter

a. 1 (context postpositive English) twittering 2 (context postpositive English) nervously excited

Usage examples of "atwitter".

Savannah was atwitter with the news of a lavish party the town leaders were planning for General Sherman and his staff.

Besides this commotion, plus being excited at seeing real live hillbilly stars such as Country Boy Eddie and his sidekick Butter Bean in person, was it any wonder that nurse Ethylene Buck was all atwitter that night?

Mortimer, the one that has a chum working over at that horrid magazine Punch, says all of London is atwitter over you.

With his short, well-groomed black hair, clean-shaven hawklike features that had set many of the women of the court atwitter, quick mind, and a bearing more princely than any prince in the Alliance, it was not at all surprising that everyone involved in the Alterac situation had taken to him, Genn Greymane included.

Young maids were set atwitter by the notion that such a daring and handsome gallant would be housed in the manor, but their smiles drooped in disappointment when the word was given that his lordship would be taking his lady to his country estate when the morning came.

All the slaves have been atwitter about the kebbold that troubled the slaving expeditions this past season and drove them from the ancient forest.