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litter

English

Etymology

From French litière, from lit (bed), from Latin lectus; confer Ancient Greek ??????? (léktron). Had the sense ‘bed’ in very early English, but then came to mean ‘portable couch’, ‘bedding’, ‘strewn rushes (for animals)’, etc.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?l?t?(?)/
  • (US) IPA(key): /?l?t?/, [?l???]
  • Rhymes: -?t?(r)
  • Homophone: lidder (US)

Noun

litter (countable and uncountable, plural litters)

  1. (countable) A platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol.
  2. (collective, countable) The offspring of a mammal born in one birth.
  3. (uncountable) Material used as bedding for animals.
  4. (uncountable) Collectively, items discarded on the ground.
    • 1730, Jonathan Swift, s:The Lady's Dressing Room
      Strephon [...] / Stole in, and took a strict survey / Of all the litter as it lay.
  5. (uncountable) Absorbent material used in an animal's litter tray
  6. (uncountable) Layer of fallen leaves and similar organic matter in a forest floor.
  7. A covering of straw for plants.

Synonyms

  • (platform designed to carry a person or a load): palanquin, sedan chair, stretcher, cacolet
  • (items discarded on the ground): waste, rubbish, garbage (US), trash (US), junk

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

litter (third-person singular simple present litters, present participle littering, simple past and past participle littered)

  1. (intransitive) To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).
  2. (transitive) To scatter carelessly about.
  3. (transitive) To strew (a place) with scattered articles.
  4. (transitive) To give birth to, used of animals.
  5. (intransitive) To produce a litter of young.
  6. (transitive) To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
    • 1693, John Hacket, Scrinia reserata: a Memorial offered to the great Deservings of John Williams
      Tell them how they litter their jades.
    • For his ease, well litter'd was the floor.
  7. (intransitive) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
    • 1634, William Habington, Castara
      The inn where he and his horse litter'd.

Derived terms

  • litterer

Translations

Anagrams

  • retilt, tilter, titler

Norman

Etymology

From Old French luitier, loitier, luiter (compare French lutter), from Vulgar Latin luct?re, from Latin luctor, luct?r? (struggle, wrestle, fight).

Verb

litter

  1. (Jersey) to wrestle

Derived terms

  • litteux (wrestler)

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witter

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?w?t.?(?)/
  • Rhymes: -?t?(r)

Etymology 1

Verb

witter (third-person singular simple present witters, present participle wittering, simple past and past participle wittered)

  1. (intransitive, informal) To speak at length on a trivial subject.
    She got home and started wittering about some religious cult she’d just heard about.

Etymology 2

From Middle English witter, witer, of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse vitr (wise, knowing), from Proto-Germanic *witraz (knowing), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (to know). Cognate with Icelandic vitur (wise). More at wit, wis.

Adjective

witter (comparative more witter, superlative most witter)

  1. (obsolete or dialectal) knowing, certain, sure, wis.

Etymology 3

From Middle English witteren, witeren, of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse vitra (to make wise, make sure), from Proto-Germanic *witr?n? (to make wise), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (to know). Cognate with Icelandic vitra (to make wise, make certain), Icelandic vitur (wise). More at wit, wis.

Verb

witter (third-person singular simple present witters, present participle wittering, simple past and past participle wittered)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete or dialectal) to make sure, inform, or declare.

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /???t?r/

Adjective

witter

  1. Comparative form of wit; whiter

Elfdalian

Etymology

From Old Norse vetr, from Proto-Germanic *wintruz. Cognate with Swedish vinter.

Noun

witter m

  1. winter

Inflection


German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?v?t?]

Verb

witter

  1. inflection of wittern:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. singular imperative

Scots

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?wet?r]

Noun

witter (plural witters)

  1. (South Scots) water

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