CLITTER

Daily Word Quiz
 
MEAZY
a) excellent, first-rate
b) giddy, empty-headed
c) meddlesome, interfering
d) lacking energy, ailing
 
Answer below.
 
Today's Featured Word
CLITTER
 
VERB
1. to talk excessively, to chatter ...a1528 obs.
2. to make a thin vibratory rattle; to cause to vibrate and rattle lightly
...1530
3. to emit the sound of a grasshopper or cicada ...1844
 
ETYMOLOGY
a parallel form of clatter, expressing a more attenuated
action of the same kind
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
a1528 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...He prates and he patters,
He clytters and he clatters,
He medles and he smatters..."
 From: Colyn Cloute
By: John Skelton, a1528
 

Daily Word Quiz Answer
 
MEAZY
​b) giddy, empty-headed ...1854 Eng. dial.

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