Word Meanings - CHITTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To chirp in a tremulous manner, as a bird. Chaucer. 2. To shiver or chatter with cold. Burns.

Related words: (words related to CHITTER)

• SHIVER-SPAR
  A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.
• CHIRPER
  One who chirps, or is cheerful.
• CHATTERATION
  The act or habit of chattering.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• CHATTER
  Etym: 1. To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct. The jaw makes answer, as the magpie chatters. Wordsworth. 2. To talk idly, carelessly, or with undue rapidity; to jabber; to prate. To tame a shrew,
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• CHIRP
  To make a shop, sharp, cheerful, as of small birds or crickets.
• SHIVERINGLY
  In a shivering manner.
• CHATTERING
  The act or habit of talking idly or rapidly, or of making inarticulate sounds; the sounds so made; noise made by the collision of the teeth; chatter.
• CHIRPINGLY
  In a chirping manner.
• CHATTERER
  A bird of the family Ampelidæ -- so called from its monotonous note. The Bohemion chatterer inhabits the arctic regions of both continents. In America the cedar bird is a more common species. See Bohemian chatterer, and Cedar bird. (more info)
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• SHIVERY
  1. Tremulous; shivering. Mallet. 2. Easily broken; brittle; shattery.
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• CHIRPING
  Cheering; enlivening. He takes his chirping pint, he cracks his jokes. Pope.
• BURNSTICKLE
  A stickleback .
• CHATTER MARK
  One of the fine undulations or ripples which are formed on the surface of work by a cutting tool which chatters. A short crack on a rock surface planed smooth by a glacier.
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• DISSHIVER
  To shiver or break in pieces.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.