Word Meanings - TWITTERING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of one who, or that which, twitters. 2. A slight nervous excitement or agitation, such as is caused by desire, expectation, or suspense. A widow, who had a twittering towards a second husband, took a gossiping companion to manage the

Additional info about word: TWITTERING

1. The act of one who, or that which, twitters. 2. A slight nervous excitement or agitation, such as is caused by desire, expectation, or suspense. A widow, who had a twittering towards a second husband, took a gossiping companion to manage the job. L'Estrange.

Related words: (words related to TWITTERING)

• SECOND
  1. Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other. And he slept and dreamed the second time. Gen. xli. 5. 2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity,
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• TWITTERING
  1. The act of one who, or that which, twitters. 2. A slight nervous excitement or agitation, such as is caused by desire, expectation, or suspense. A widow, who had a twittering towards a second husband, took a gossiping companion to manage the
• COMPANIONLESS
  Without a companion.
• CAUSATIVE
  1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.
• AGITATION
  1. The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation. 2. A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• TOWARDS
  See TOWARD
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• HUSBANDABLE
  Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy. Sherwood.
• WIDOW-MAKER
  One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak.
• CAUSATOR
  One who causes. Sir T. Browne.
• HUSBANDLESS
  Destitute of a husband. Shak.
• CAUSTICILY
  1. The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash. 2. Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• EXPECTATION
  The leaving of the disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure. Expectation of life, the mean or average duration of the life individuals after any specified age. Syn. -- Anticipation; confidence; trust. (more info) 1. The act
• SECOND-CLASS
  Of the rank or degree below the best highest; inferior; second- rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage.
• CAUSAL
  A causal word or form of speech. Anglo-Saxon drencan to drench, causal of Anglo-Saxon drincan to drink. Skeat.
• ANTICAUSODIC
  See ANTICAUSOTIC
• UNEXPECTATION
  Absence of expectation; want of foresight. Bp. Hall.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• TOWARD; TOWARDS
  1. In the direction of; to. He set his face toward the wilderness. Num. xxiv. 1. The waves make towards'' the pebbled shore. Shak. 2. With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning. His eye shall be evil
• TWITTER
  One who twits, or reproaches; an upbraider.