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chitter

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chit·ter  (chtr)
intr.v. chit·tered, chit·ter·ing, chit·ters
To twitter or chatter, as a bird.

[Middle English chiteren, of imitative origin.]

chitter [ˈtʃɪtə]
vb (intr)
1. Chiefly US to twitter or chirp
2. a dialect word for shiver1 or (of the teeth) chatter
[of imitative origin]
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Verb1.chitterchitter - make high-pitched sounds, as of birds
cheep, chirp, chirrup, peep - make high-pitched sounds; "the birds were chirping in the bushes"


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Except for the occasional bark of a gaunt stray dog, or the cough from one of the much rarer 1950s-era automobiles, mostly what I hear is the chitter of insects and caws of birds.
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