witter

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witter (third-person singular simple present witters, present participle wittering, simple past and past participle wittered)

  1. (intransitive, informal) To speak at length on a trivial subject.
    She got home and started wittering about some religious cult she’d just heard about.
    • 2022 February 23, Benedict le Vay, “Part of rail's past... present... and future”, in RAIL, number 951, page 55:
      When people witter on about pollution nowadays, I think of the days when going to school in broad daylight, I couldn't see my feet in the London smog. I had to feel the kerb with my front bike wheel.
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Etymology 2

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From Middle English witter, witer, of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse vitr (wise, knowing), from Proto-Germanic *witraz (knowing), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (to know). Cognate with Icelandic vitur (wise). More at wit, wis.

Adjective

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witter (comparative more witter, superlative most witter)

  1. (obsolete or dialectal) knowing, certain, sure, wis.

Etymology 3

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From Middle English witteren, witeren, of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse vitra (to make wise, make sure), from Proto-Germanic *witrōną (to make wise), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (to know). Cognate with Icelandic vitra (to make wise, make certain), Icelandic vitur (wise). More at wit, wis.

Verb

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witter (third-person singular simple present witters, present participle wittering, simple past and past participle wittered)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete or dialectal) to make sure, inform, or declare.

Dutch

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witter

  1. comparative degree of wit; whiter

Elfdalian

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From Old Norse vetr, from Proto-Germanic *wintruz. Cognate with Swedish vinter.

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witter m

  1. winter

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Seasons in Elfdalian · årstiðer (layout · text) · category
wår (spring) såmår (summer) ost (autumn) witter (winter)

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witter

  1. inflection of wittern:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. singular imperative

Scots

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witter (plural witters)

  1. (Southern Scots) water