Dithers

noun, verb, slang

noun, verb, slang ·2 syllables ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The creeps; a feeling of fear or anxiety. plural, plural-only, slang

    "“It gives me the dithers, thinking of the damage that maniac could do if he ever took the headship. He could reinstate the cycle of chosen births, or enact any of a hundred other terrible laws.”"

Verb
  1. 1
    third-person singular simple present indicative of dither form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person

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acheachingall overschilblainchillchilling

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"She wavers, she dithers: in one word, a woman."

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