dithers

noun

dithers

noun

1

Slang The creeps; a feeling of fear or anxiety.

“It gives me the dithers, thinking of the damage that maniac could do if he ever took the headship. He could reinstate the cycle of chosen births, or enact any of a hundred other terrible laws.”2017, J. C. Staudt, Children of the Wastes:

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