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Date: 1300-1400
Origin: From the sound

twitter

1 verb
     
Related topics: Birds
twit‧ter1 [intransitive]
1HBB if a bird twitters, it makes a lot of short high sounds
2 to talk about unimportant and silly things, usually very quickly and nervously in a high voice
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