Twittering

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of producing chirping sounds, or twitters.

    "Once there, he blushingly went through the procedure, having to fold and refold the flag about three times, to the twitterings and gigglings of twelve little girls."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of twitter form-of, gerund, participle, present
  2. 2
    present participle and gerund of Twitter form-of, gerund, participle, present

Example

More examples

"I spent that day listening to the lonely scrapings of a pen. During that time, from time to time, I heard a Java sparrow twittering. It occurred to me that maybe Java sparrows twitter out of loneliness too. I walked out to the veranda to see. Nevertheless, flying to and fro between two perches busily and incessantly, it did not show the slightest hint of grievance."

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