Dictionary Definition
tweet n : a week chirping sound as of a small
bird
Verb
1 make a weak, chirping sound; "the small bird
was tweeting in the tree" [syn: twirp]
2 squeeze tightly between the fingers; "He
pinched her behind"; "She squeezed the bottle" [syn: pinch, squeeze, twinge, nip, twitch]
User Contributed Dictionary
Verb
- To make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds.
Extensive Definition
The term tweet, and words and expressions
starting with tweet, may refer to:
- A bird
song (onomatopoeia), the sound produced by a bird, especially
small birds
- The small bird itself (childish, also named tweetybird)
- A high-frequency sound from a loudspeaker or tweeter
- Tweet, an American R&B/soul singer-songwriter
- Tweetie Pie, a 1947 Academy Award-winning animated short
- Tweety Bird, a fictional character in various cartoons
- T-37 Tweet trainer and A-37 Dragonfly light-attack aircraft (the latter aka Super Tweet)
- Tweety González, an Argentinian musician
- Chris Matthews, host of the MSNBC television program Hardball with Chris Matthews, often referred to as Tweety in the blogosphere
- A message on Twitter
- To send a message via Twitter
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
cackle,
call, carol, caw, chatter, cheep, chip, chipper, chirk, chirm, chirp, chirr, chirrup, chitter, chuck, clack, cluck, cock-a-doodle-doo, coo, croak, cronk, crow, cuckoo, drum, gabble, gaggle, gobble, guggle, honk, hoo, hoot, peep, pip, pipe, quack, roll, scold, sing, squawk, trill, tweedle, twit, twitter, warble, whistle