witter
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈwɪtə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈwɪtɚ/, [ˈwɪɾɚ]
- Rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
Etymology 1[edit]
Verb[edit]
witter (third-person singular simple present witters, present participle wittering, simple past and past participle wittered)
- (intransitive, informal) To speak at length on a trivial subject.
- She got home and started wittering about some religious cult she’d just heard about.
- 2022 February 23, Benedict le Vay, “Part of rail's past... present... and future”, in RAIL, number 951, page 55:
- 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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Etymology 2[edit]
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.
Adjective[edit]
witter (comparative more witter, superlative most witter)
Etymology 3[edit]
From Middle English witteren, witeren, of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse vitra (“to make wise, make sure”), from Proto-Germanic *witrōną (“to make wise”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to know”). Cognate with Icelandic vitra (“to make wise, make certain”), Icelandic vitur (“wise”). More at wit, wis.
Verb[edit]
witter (third-person singular simple present witters, present participle wittering, simple past and past participle wittered)
- (intransitive, obsolete or dialectal) to make sure, inform, or declare.
Dutch[edit]
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witter
Elfdalian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse vetr, from Proto-Germanic *wintruz. Cognate with Swedish vinter.
Noun[edit]
witter m
Inflection[edit]
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German[edit]
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witter
- inflection of wittern:
Scots[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
witter (plural witters)
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