Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To emit a short, shrill, strident call or note, as a grasshopper; make a slight rattle.
- noun A slight rattling noise.
- noun Same as
clatter , n. Compareclutter , n.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb to make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures, as of male insects such as crickets or grasshoppers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Loose
stones on hillsides deposited byweathering .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures
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Examples
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The 24-year-old Miami artist can't believe that vajazzling is a "real thing," pointing out that the practice was initially spoofed on YouTube with a fake advertisement for something called "clitter," a faux vagina glitter.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Zosia Bielski 2010
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The 24-year-old Miami artist can't believe that vajazzling is a "real thing," pointing out that the practice was initially spoofed on YouTube with a fake advertisement for something called "clitter," a faux vagina glitter.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Zosia Bielski 2010
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The 24-year-old Miami artist can't believe that vajazzling is a "real thing," pointing out that the practice was initially spoofed on YouTube with a fake advertisement for something called "clitter," a faux vagina glitter.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Zosia Bielski 2010
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No way but suicide king and down the alley roared the car clitter clattering up the motorways and through towards evermore.
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In spite of the opening and closing of doors, the hasty messengers, the ringing of bells and the perpetual clitter-clack of recording implements, Graham felt isolated, strangely inactive, inoperative.
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The wings flapped jerkily, click, block, clitter clock, and the machines drove up; they spread and ceased, and the apparatus came soaring through the air.
The War in the Air Herbert George 2006
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A whirring of engines, click, clock, clitter clock, smote upon his ears.
The War in the Air Herbert George 2006
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He was quite alone — for his coachman was ill in bed — and there was nothing to be seen on either hand but a drifting mystery of hedge running athwart the yellow glare of his lamps, and nothing to hear but the clitter-clatter of his horses and the gride and hedge echo of his wheels.
The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004
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There were nearly two hundred of the things, Holmes said, their fantastic shapes perched atop the rocky clitter around their disintegrating feet, and below that the low green turf, spongy with the water it held.
The Moor King, Laurie R. 1998
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I dried my face, blew my nose, rested my head in my hands until the pounding internal pressure had subsided — long enough for a rabbit to lose its fear and venture out of its bury among the clitter.
The Moor King, Laurie R. 1998
qms commented on the word clitter
When the bowl of the day is aglitter
The songbirds will warble and twitter,
But take silent flight
From smothering night -
The cave of the hoot and the clitter.
July 11, 2015
qms commented on the word clitter
There ran through the crowd a quick titter,
Leaving nudists alarmed and atwitter
And so much aghast
The beach emptied fast
From dread he'd return as a clitter.
February 16, 2016
bilby commented on the word clitter
Hmmmm...
February 16, 2016
qroqqa commented on the word clitter
In Norwegian maritime folklore, a sea captain who behaved so lewdly with his men that they mutinied and threw him overboard, was believed to lurk deep underwater, and return once in a hundred years in the form of the Klitter, a vast, multi-tentacled disrespecter of persons, refining his technique as he slumbers.
Tennyson knew all about him, of course:
Naturally nudists are terrified of his rising and of his noodly appendages.
February 16, 2016
bilby commented on the word clitter
Loose stones on hillsides, you perverts, loose stones on hillsides.
February 16, 2016
qms commented on the word clitter
Posterity needs to know who started this thread:
bilby commented on the word clatter
If you'd like to make up a nonce defintion for clitter *ahem* I will leave that up to you.
February 16, 2016
February 16, 2016
bilby commented on the word clitter
clitter clatter clutter
February 16, 2016