Definition of "chittering" [chittering]

• Present participle of chitter. (verb)

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• "I read the whole thing waiting for the turn, when it would be revealed that the Morlocks were the only things keeping the Eloi safe from predators, that their "chittering" was speech, and that they had become the keepers of society and culture."
• "It reappeared within minutes to make an even more spectacular flight from roof tiles to tree, chittering crossly at an intrusive blackbird as it scampered up the trunk."
• "While I am not the biggest One Piece fan in the world (read: hate it with the passion of a thousand chittering gerbils), I really do like the concept of the knife test."