different between chitter vs clitter

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English chiteren, chitren, cheteren.

Verb

chitter (third-person singular simple present chitters, present participle chittering, simple past and past participle chittered)

1. To make a series of high-pitched sounds; to twitter, chirp or chatter.

   It was a beautifully sunny day and beetles could be heard chittering loudly in the rose garden by the side of the path made out of antique bricks.

2. (obsolete, Scotland) To shiver or chatter with cold.

Etymology 2

Noun

chitter (plural chitters)

1. (dialect) Alternative form of chitterling

References

• “chitter” in the Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, 1974 edition.

English

Etymology

Related to clatter.

Verb

clitter (third-person singular simple present clitters, present participle clittering, simple past and past participle clittered)

1. To clatter lightly; to make a soft rattling noise.
   • 1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger

     Howard […] was even more aware of something else. A clittering sound. It was coming from behind him, and it was getting closer.

Noun

clitter (countable and uncountable, plural clitters)

1. Loose stones on hillsides deposited by weathering.

Synonyms

• scree