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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
witter
verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Digital mobiles witter noisily at high frequencies.
▪ Honestly, Ethel, she sounded really mad, wittering on about beetles up her pyjama leg and suchlike.
▪ I can hear Mum's voice wittering in the background.
▪ We witter on about quality initiatives and produce myriads of little forms to show just how quality-driven we are.
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witter

Etymology 1

  1. (context obsolete or dialectal English) knowing, certain, sure, wis. Etymology 2

    v

  2. 1 (context intransitive intransitive obsolete or dialectal English) to make sure, inform, or declare. 2 (context intransitive English) to speak at length on a trivial subject.

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Witter (surname)

Witter is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Cherie Witter (born 1963), American model and actress; Playboy Playmate 1985
  • Daniel Witter (died 1675), Irish-Anglican priest
  • Daniel P. Witter (1852–1930), New York politician
  • Dean G. Witter (1887–1969), American businessman; founder of Dean Witter & Co.
  • Jim Witter (born 1964), Canadian country music and Christian music singer and songwriter
  • Junior Witter (born 1974), English professional boxer
  • Karen Witter (born 1961), American model and actress
  • Lisa Witter (contemporary), author
  • Ray Witter (1896–1983), American football player
  • Rick Witter (born 1972), English singer and songwriter
  • Tony Witter (born 1965), English professional football player
Fictional characters
  • Pacey Witter, character on the American television series Dawson’s Creek
Witter

Witter may refer to:

  • Witter (surname)
  • Witter, California, alternate name of Witter Springs, California
  • Witter (civil parish), a civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland

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Witter (civil parish)

Witter is a civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the historic barony of Ards Upper.

Usage examples of "witter".

Hannah Mitchell wittering on about a letter from Canada, or Peter Murphy who wanted to have a cocktail party to annoy Geraldine.

He wore a pair of navy slacks and a white polo shirt with a Dean Witter logo.

Kenny tried to disguise himself in a pair of trendy sunglasses and his Dean Witter cap, but several people in the store still recognized him and wanted to talk about what had happened.

By keeping to the left, the drive holds on up the Russian River Valley, through the miles of the noted Asti Vineyards to Cloverdale, and then by way of Pieta, Witter, and Highland Springs to Lakeport.

She witters on about how I have some star lines in sympathetic alignment with the dolphins.

He is wittering gruffly in triumph and ushering me quickly ashore and away and I alight, as slowly as if onto coals, picking my way through the rubbish and the broken glass.

Parrots and canaries punctuated the avian wittering with squawked exclamation marks that made Isaac wince.

Isaac heard a peal of absurd giggles from the retreating form, a thin wittering cluck that tailed out in the darkness.

The gigantic spider ignored them utterly, wittering quietly to itself and waiting intently, as if waiting for the frozen militia officer to complete his move in tic-tac-toe.

Cooper said abruptly, hoping to silence Guest who was already wittering and babbling about the whereabouts of the missing van.

It was Paula who had spotted the thatched building well back from the Wittering road which was Amber Cottage.

Jean was kidnapped, then tortured inside that cottage near Wittering, because someone thought she knew something very dangerous.

Suddenly realizing that she was wittering, she forced herself back to the practicalities.

As long as they were with Witter, the off-site warning correlation wouldn’t activate.

The copy in the brochure wittered on about the ancient mystical arts of the seers and sages of Hawalius, and wildly over-represented the level of accommodation available in Hawalion.