Meanings
comparative more twittersome · superlative most twittersome
- Characterised or marked by twittering
And the family he exploits takes things pretty hard too, which has the verbal consequence of putting too much weight on the more twittersome lines.
1965, Michael Williams, Commonweal - Volume 813 more examples
These fancies, however, had time to perch but not to nest on mental boughs, when they were flittered away by a trig little old lady who gave me a good-morning so twittersome and chirpy that I knew there must have been far back on her prehistoric tree some bright-eyed, brown-clad songster with debonair notes and a cozy nest in the grass.
1917, The Unitarian Register - Volume 96The other evening — it was two o'clock in the morning, to be exact — a sick man of my acquaintance lay in bed in what could only be described as a twittersome condition.
1926, James Agate, The Common Touch - Volume 1; Volumes 3-6I should like to like poems by Wallace Stevens, which I find coloured notes on tissue paper; as feeble and twittersome and remote as the abstracted watercolours of John Marin; [...]
1957, John Lehmann, Alan Ross, London Magazine - Volume 4
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