ALL OF A TWITTER, phr. (colloquial).—Frightened, nervous, fidgety (GROSE): also IN (or ON) THE TWITTERS. TWITTERATION (or TWITTERS) = sexual desire: espec. of women.
1660. SIR R. L’ESTRANGE, The Visions of Quevedo. A widow which had a TWITTERING towards a second husband took a gossiping companion to manage the job.
1766. COLMAN, The Clandestine Marriage, i. 1. I am ALL OF A TWITTER to see my old John Harrowby again.
