chitter

• Verbe utilisé pour décrire l'action d'émettre une série de sons courts et aigus, souvent associée aux petits animaux ou aux oiseaux, ou bien de trembler de froid.

A verb used to describe the act of making a series of short, high-pitched sounds, often associated with small animals or birds, or to shiver or tremble from cold.

1. Make high-pitched soundsB2informal

   To produce a series of short, high-pitched sounds, like those made by small birds or animals.

   Pousser des cris aigus

   • The sparrows chittered in the bushes at dawn.
   • We could hear the mice chittering behind the wall.
   • The baby birds chittered loudly when their mother returned.

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