witter
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- 9
- Words With Friends
- 9
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Definition of witter
4 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(informal, intransitive)To speak at length on a trivial subject.
“She got home and started wittering about some religious cult she’d just heard about.”
“When people witter on about pollution nowadays, I think of the days when going to school in broad daylight, I couldn't see my feet in the London smog. I had to feel the kerb with my front bike wheel.”
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verb
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(informal, intransitive)To speak at length on a trivial subject.
“She got home and started wittering about some religious cult she’d just heard about.”
“When people witter on about pollution nowadays, I think of the days when going to school in broad daylight, I couldn't see my feet in the London smog. I had to feel the kerb with my front bike wheel.”
- (dialectal, intransitive, obsolete)to make sure, inform, or declare.
adj
- (dialectal, obsolete)knowing, certain, sure, wis.
name
- A surname.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English witter, witer, of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse vitr (“wise, knowing”), from Proto-Germanic *witraz (“knowing”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to know”). Cognate with Icelandic vitur (“wise”). More at wit, wis.
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