What is "wittering"

Usage examples of "wittering".

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

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.

At first I thought you might have wanted all that ‘shit you bought from Gazid for yourself, but the idiot man’s wittering eventually turned to your caterpillar in Brock Marsh, and I realized the magnitude of your scheme.

Five minutes after they came, some Pavlovian trigger mechanism invariably caused them to start wittering on about their progeny.

So it was that the Festival orbiters noticed (and ignored) the slow, monochromatic witterings of Imperial Traffic Control.