Chittering ppl. a.

[f. as prec. + -ING².] That chitters (in all the senses of the vb.).

1785.  Burns, Winter Night, iv. Whare wilt thou cow’r thy chittering wing.

1821.  Clare, Vill. Minstr., II. 176. The chittering cricket.

1887.  Stevenson, Underwoods, II. ii. 83. Wauken, at cauld-rife sax o’clock My chitterin’ frame.