witterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

witter (三人称単数 現在形 witters, 現在分詞 wittering, 過去形および過去分詞形 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.

語源 2

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.

形容詞

witter (comparative more witter, superlative most witter)

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

語源 3

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.

動詞

witter (三人称単数 現在形 witters, 現在分詞 wittering, 過去形および過去分詞形 wittered)

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