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atwitter

adj
/əˈtwɪtɚ/

Etymology

From a- + twitter.

  1. inherited from *twitwizōną✻ — “to chirp; twitter”
  2. inherited from *twitwiʀōn✻
  3. inherited from *twiterian✻
  4. inherited from twitren
  5. prefixed as atwitter — “a + twitter”

Definitions

  1. twittering

  2. nervously excited

    • I had lumbered into the kitchen, taste buds a-twitter with expectation, planning to make my “breakfast of champions” […].

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for atwitter. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA