twitter

Universal Words verb, noun verb 1 [V] when birds twitter, they make a series of short high sounds: starlings twittering in the trees 2 [V, Vspeech] ~ (on) (about sth) (especially BrE) to talk quickly in a high excited voice, especially about sth that is not very important noun [sing.] 1 (also twittering) a series of short high sounds that birds make: the twitter of starlings 2 (informal) a state of nervous excitement: She had been all of a twitter since she heard the good news that morning.