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Tweet   /twit/   Listen
Tweet

verb
1.
Make a weak, chirping sound.  Synonym: twirp.
2.
Squeeze tightly between the fingers.  Synonyms: nip, pinch, squeeze, twinge, twitch.  "She squeezed the bottle"
noun
1.
A weak chirping sound as of a small bird.



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"Tweet" Quotes from Famous Books



... stump, or on the ground, and you may try for days in vain, to find one. But at the same time he spends his time running merrily through the orchard trees, even whispering his husky 'weachy-weachy-twee-twee, tweet' to the old queen ...
— Citizen Bird • Mabel Osgood Wright and Elliott Coues
... when she continually accustoms its impressionable gray matter to such absurd expressions and distortions of our noble tongue as thoughtless mothers inflict every day on the helpless creatures committed to their care? Can a child who is constantly called 'tweet itty wee singie' ever attain to any proper conception of his own being and possibilities ...
— Anne's House of Dreams • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... thee on a greater wing, Nor twitter robin-like of love, nor sing A pretty dalliance with grief—but try Some metre like a sky, Wherein to set Stars that may linger yet When I, thy master, shall have come to die. Twitter and tweet Thy carollings Of little things, Of fair and sweet; For it is meet, O robin red! That little theme Hath little song, That little head Hath little dream, And long. But we have starry business, such a grief As Autumn's, dead by some forgotten sheaf, ...
— English Poems • Richard Le Gallienne


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