English Dictionary

twitter

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈtwɪt.ə(ɹ)/

動詞

自動詞 他動詞 廃用 別表記 異形

(intransitive) To utter a succession of chirps. / (intransitive, transitive) (of a person) To talk in an excited or nervous manner. / To make the sound of a half-suppressed laugh; to titter; to giggle.

日本語の意味

（自動詞）鳥がチーチーと鳴く、さえずる。 / （自動詞・他動詞）人が興奮したり、緊張して話す。 / （自動詞）くすくす笑う、またはため息混じりに笑う。

When dawn broke, the finches on the windowsill began to twitter.

夜明けが来ると、窓辺の小鳥たちがさえずり始めた。

意味（1）

(intransitive) To utter a succession of chirps.

The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, / The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed,

意味（2）

(intransitive, transitive) (of a person) To talk in an excited or nervous manner.

意味（3）

To make the sound of a half-suppressed laugh; to titter; to giggle.

Oh, the young handsom wenches, how they twitter'd, When they but saw me shake my ware, and sing too!

意味（4）

To have a slight trembling of the nerves; to be excited or agitated.

意味（5）

(obsolete, transitive) To twit; to reproach or upbraid.

I have repented of it many’s the good time and oft. And if he was so good to forgive me a word spoken in haste or so, it doth not become such a one as you to twitter me. He was a husband to me, he was; and if ever I did make use of an ill word or so in a passion, I never called him rascal […]

意味（6）

Alternative form of Twitter

In addition to listing specific earmarks he finds the most reprehensible, McCain said he has been twittering the “top ten” most egregious

twitters （ present singular third-person ）

twittering （ participle present ）

twittered （ participle past ）

twittered （ past ）