witter

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈwɪtə(ɹ)/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈwɪtɚ/, [ˈwɪɾɚ]
• Rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)

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.

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.

witter (comparative more witter, superlative most witter)

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

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.

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɪtər/

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witter

1. comparative degree of wit; whiter

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

witter m

1. winter

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɪtɐ]

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witter

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈwetər]

witter (plural witters)

1. (South Scots) water