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Clitter   Listen
verb
clitter  v. i.  To make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures, as of male insects such as crickets or grasshoppers.
Synonyms: stridulate.






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"Clitter" Quotes from Famous Books



... a merry mime was Jacko! He could wink, and whiff tobacco, Like a man (an artful homo) and a brother. And the Parrot—ah! for patter, And capacity for chatter On—no matter much what matter, That gave scope for clitter-clatter, The world could hardly furnish such another. The Parrot was a bird That could talk great bosh with gravity; The Ape could be absurd With an air of solemn suavity; And which to take most seriously, when the mimes were both on show, There were ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 28, 1893 • Various



Words linked to "Clitter" :   noise, stridulate, resound



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