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Definition of Twittens
1. twitten [n] - See also: twitten
Lexicographical Neighbors of Twittens
Literary usage of Twittens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ovingdean Grange: A Tale of the South Downs by William Harrison Ainsworth (1882)
"... or lanes so extremely narrow as scarcely to allow two persons meeting in them
to pass each other, and known in the dialect of the place as " twittens. ..."
2. A Glossary of the Provincialisms in Use in the County of Sussex by William Durrant Cooper (1853)
"Brighton, Chichester, and Lewes, are called twittens. TXE, s. [Teag, Sax., a
common.] An extensive open or common field; thus, Telscombe-fye, &c. ..."
3. A Peep Into the Past: Brighton in the Olden Time, with Glances at the Present by John George Bishop (1892)
"... Mr. Cobby, and especially when one reflects what it really must have been,
with its 17 or 18 irregularly-built streets, intersected by lanes, twittens, ..."
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