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tweet (n): the chirp of a small or young bird

• saurik 9y ago
  Woah. Huh. I totally managed to never notice that. FWIW, the place I was going was "the only place where toot normally comes up as a word is when people talk about the sound of a fart or in the phrase 'to toot your own horn', which is way too close to home".
  • saurik 9y ago
    (And "tweet" still does not feel like "a word" in the way that "toot" does. I would want to see a survey done, as a random dictionary is not how you define if a word exists, to the extent to which a word can exist at all.)
    • Terretta 9y ago
      Tweet dates to 1851, myriad examples: http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/377843 http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/377843 Chaucer came up with twitter: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/10/chaucer-coined-twitter/322107/ https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/10/ch... Craig Hockenberry applied the one to the other: http://furbo.org/2013/06/28/the-origin-of-tweet/ http://furbo.org/2013/06/28/the-origin-of-tweet/