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Dither   /dˈɪðər/   Listen
Dither

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


Words linked to "Dither" :   pother, fuss, agitation, fret, tizzy, niggle


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