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Dither   /dˈɪðər/   Listen
Dither

noun
1.
An excited state of agitation.  Synonyms: flap, fuss, pother, tizzy.  "There was a terrible flap about the theft"
verb
1.
Act nervously; be undecided; be uncertain.
2.
Make a fuss; be agitated.  Synonyms: flap, pother.






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"Dither" Quotes from Famous Books



... highly irregular intervals, Betsy's screen lighted up and showed the weird patterns, and her loudspeakers emitted the peepings and chirps and deep-bass hootings of the broadcasts. And the high brass went into a dither to end all dithers as tapes of the received material reached the Pentagon and were translated into ...
— The Machine That Saved The World • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... Renee de Really, Gilles Mowbray, Jeanne Kennedy, Elspeth Curle, Mary Paget, and Susan Kercady; and of men-kind, Dominique Bourgoin her doctor, Pierre Gorjon her apothecary, Jacques Gervais her surgeon, Annibal Stewart her footman, Dither Sifflart her butler, Jean Laudder her baker, ...
— Celebrated Crimes, Complete • Alexandre Dumas, Pere



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