to witter
1
9.3
- verb
- /ˈwɪtə/
- UK
:
hablar sin parar
- Do stop wittering on.
Examples
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She keeps wittering on about her favorite TV show, which I find quite boring.
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Enough of me wittering on, though, you aren't here to read this; you're here to hear from our former star, ladies and gentlemen, Andy Liddell.
Blog text (6) -
OS X is blessed with dozens of high-quality voices that witter away to you in various dulcet tones.
Blog text (20) -
She's always wittering.
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I was just about to start wittering on about how humans seem constitutionally incapable of unadulterated feeling, but right now the pretentious bit of me seems to be losing out.
Blog text (22) -
They hadn't a clue what I was wittering about but said, (crooked smile) they thought there'd be no harm in it; it might give the Angel a giggle.
Fiction book (1998) -
I wish he would stop wittering and get to the point of his story.
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Whenever we meet, she starts wittering about her pets and their latest antics.
Synonyms
86
2.7
To talk quickly and without stopping about unimportant things
12
8.0
To talk a lot in a silly way that makes little sense
9
8.4
To talk on and on in a silly way about unimportant things
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6.6
To talk for a long time about small boring things
3
8.8
To talk a lot about unimportant things in an annoying way
2
7.7
To talk a lot in an annoying, noisy way
1
7.9
To talk quickly and unclearly so others cannot understand you
1
9.9
To talk for a long time about things that do not matter
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9.9
To talk a long time in a silly or unimportant way
1
9.9
To talk for a long time about silly or unimportant things
1
8.7
To talk for a long time in a noisy, excited way about small things
Speak to someone for a very long time in a way that annoys them
To talk for a long time about unimportant things in a silly way
To talk quickly and without stopping about unimportant things
To talk in a slow, unclear way about unimportant things
To talk a lot in a silly, pointless way
To talk or act in a silly, unimportant way
Antonyms
How Talkative
Surface Forms
Etymology
Witter is easy to remember if you think of small, repeated talk like a bird — like twitter. A helpful way to remember is to imagine someone 'twittering' on like a noisy bird, which is why witter means 'to talk for a long time about unimportant things'.