twittersome
adjEtymology From twitter + -some.
1
Characterised or marked by twittering
- These fancies, however, had time to perch but not to nest on mental boughs, when they were flittered away by a trig little old lady who gave me a good-morning so twittersome and chirpy that I knew there must have been far back on her prehistoric tree some bright-eyed, brown-clad songster with debonair notes and a cozy nest in the grass.1917, The Unitarian Register - Volume 96
- The other evening — it was two o'clock in the morning, to be exact — a sick man of my acquaintance lay in bed in what could only be described as a twittersome condition.1926, James Agate, The Common Touch - Volume 1; Volumes 3-6:
2 more examples
- I should like to like poems by Wallace Stevens, which I find coloured notes on tissue paper; as feeble and twittersome and remote as the abstracted watercolours of John Marin; [...]1957, John Lehmann, Alan Ross, London Magazine - Volume 4:
- And the family he exploits takes things pretty hard too, which has the verbal consequence of putting too much weight on the more twittersome lines.1965, Michael Williams, Commonweal - Volume 81: