dithers
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]dithers
- third-person singular simple present indicative of dither
Noun
[edit]dithers pl (plural only)
- (slang) The creeps; a feeling of fear or anxiety.
- 2017, J. C. Staudt, Children of the Wastes:
- “It gives me the dithers, thinking of the damage that maniac could do if he ever took the headship. He could reinstate the cycle of chosen births, or enact any of a hundred other terrible laws.”
References
[edit]- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary