Sc. and north. dial. [Cf. TWIT sb.2 and TWITTER v.2] a. A thin part in a thread that is unequally spun. Also transf. b. A shred, a fragment. c. An entanglement; a complication.
1721. Kelly, Sc. Prov., 395. You are as small as the Twitter of a twin’d Rusky, a Taunt to a Maid, that would gladly be esteem’d neat, and small.
1825. Jamieson, s.v., Yarn is said to be twined to twitters, when twined too small…. It is said of a lank delicate girl; ‘She’s a mere twitter.’
1847–78. Halliwell, Twitters, shreds; fragments. North.
1876. Whitby Gloss., Twitters, entangled threads; complications of all sorts.
