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語源 1

動詞

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.

語源 2

From 中期英語 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 中期英語 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 (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.