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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chitter

Chitter \Chit"ter\, v. i. [Cf. Chatter.]

  1. To chirp in a tremulous manner, as a bird. [Obs.]
    --Chaucer.

  2. To shiver or chatter with cold. [Scot.]
    --Burns.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chitter

c.1200, imitative of birds. Related: Chittered; chittering.

Wiktionary
chitter

vb. 1 To make a series of high-pitched sounds; to twitter, chirp or chatter. 2 (context obsolete Scotland English) To shiver or chatter with cold.

WordNet
chitter

v. make high-pitched sounds, as of birds [syn: twitter]

Usage examples of "chitter".

Moammar guided her into the afterworld, and they were accompanied by a flock of chittering, mud-colored sparrows.

Whites chittered, the Harskeel and his men screamed, the cyclops roared, and the giant worm scraped across the rock.

They chittered and creaked erratically, talking as much to mind-ghosts as to their companions.

Chitter Robinson and a stewdcat named Hall had a fite on the Plains and neether licked.

The Hoorah zoomed toward that branch--and the spider sprang twenty feet to another, chittering vehemently.

Arachnia chittered something in his native tongue that sounded uncomfortably like annoyance.

What might have been Arachnian laughter chittered from the translator, who stood in the road, watching them pull away.

The squirrel on the table chittered in panic and then ran up his partner to hide under her hair.

There was some excited clicking and chittering, then the demons returned to the collection of leaves and fruit.

Yipping and chittering like homicidal gerbils, the Gnats crashed on into the underbrush.

Mister Nibbles was chittering angrily at the bear, who was seated on the sofa within easy grabbing distance of a large platter of scones, muffins, and assorted tea cakes.

A triangular cage with one of the little chittering creatures was balanced precariously on what Jameson took to be a Cygnan desk: a sort of oversize shoetree with a multitude of flat oval surfaces.

In another, a flock of starlings chittered over the heels of a dozen loaves of bread.

A steel-blue bird chittered from the top of a scrawny pine as the two horses carried their riders downhill and generally westward.

It was midmorning on this part of God's Grove, the river made a rushing noise as it entered the rapids, birds and unseen arboreals chittered in the thick trees farther downriver.