twitterer
8.2
A small bird that makes short high musical sounds
- noun
- /ˈtwɪtərər/
- The cheerful twitterer sang merrily in the trees as the sun rose.
Examples
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As we walked through the park, we heard the delightful sounds of a twitterer nearby.
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In the quiet morning, the twitterer provided a beautiful melody that filled the air.
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As Robert talked, Margo turned into a new kind of bird, a twitterer, flying around the prow of Robert's narration.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
How Vocal
Surface Forms
twitterer singular
twitterers plural
Morphology
Etymology
Twitterer comes from twitter, a sound word that copies little bird calls like 'cheep' or 'tweet', so a twitterer is a bird that makes short, high-pitched notes.