atwitter

adj — 2 senses

atwitter

adj

/əˈtwɪtɚ/

Etymology From a- + twitter.

1

Postpositional twittering

2

Postpositional nervously excited

  • I had lumbered into the kitchen, taste buds a-twitter with expectation, planning to make my “breakfast of champions” […].1979 February 3, Nancy Walker, “Going Bananas”, in [Boston] Gay Community News, volume 6, number 27, page 11:
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