Meaning of twittersome | Babel Free

Definitions

Characterised or marked by twittering

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.”

“The 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.”

“I 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; [...]”

“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.”

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