n. A gardeners' name for certain plant-deformations caused by insects, notably a curious bunching and twisting of the carnation-plant caused by the work of anthomyiid larvæ. Some forms of twitter are caused by thrips and others by plantlice.To utter a succession of small, tremulous sounds, as a bird; sing in bird-notes; chirp.To titter; giggle.To quiver; tremble; palpitate; hence, to be in a flutter or fright.To sing or utter in bird-notes; chirp out.To spin unevenly.n. A chirp or series of chirps, as of a bird, especially the swallow.n. A fit of laughter; a titter.n. A tremble; a flutter; a general excitement; a pother: as, to be in (or of) a twitter, or to be in or on the twitters.n. One who twits or reproaches.n. A shred; a fragment: used in the plural.n. The refuse or residuum of the case of the spermwhale, a gummy and thready substance left when the case is squeezed.