twittery

Was it something that that twittery old lady had said?

My advice to nervous officials and twittery purists in England is to chill out.

Beyond it was a lake, with pretty little buildings standing up on stilts above the water; I could hear twittery music coming from somewhere.

But the purposefully robotic, twittery movement soon grew tiresome.

And her twittery patter is schoolgirlish in its naïveté.

Her voice was neither twittery nor hoarse.

You were about as twittery as a pom-pom girl."

After a few seconds, she gave a twittery laugh and whispered, "Relax, angel, relax.

The Empress had been a flighty, twittery girl, not the magnificent ruler she had always been.

Fat, twittery Aunt Kade was a far better sailor than she was.

All that is twittery and lit'ry: no thanks, pal."

Saying that, Google+ does combine both Twittery and Facebooky elements.

There is no overt symbolism here, but the poised, calm animal bulk alongside the twittery danglers gives the work a compelling tension.

They're twittery and flighty and feathery and tickly, and maybe a little bit feather-headed."

She's got most of the symptoms - mdash; is twittery and cross, doesn't eat, lies awake, and mopes in corners.

Caroline Sullivan from The Guardian wrote that in the song "some of Jewel's twittery soul-searching has been replaced by healthy cynicism."

He put his head on one side and listened to the frail, twittery music from the radio room beyond a dim arch at the far side of the lobby.

Orfamay Quest's twittery little voice said: "Oh Mr. Marlowe I've been trying to get you for just the longest time.

The Walrus-like Mr. Murray sheds decades to become a twittery Paraguayan virgin in love with the poetry of Tennyson.

They made sleepy little twittery noises that for some reason made me think of the twins, and that made me sad and put tears in my eyes.

Hovering in a twittery state of doubt may be part of the modern condition, but overlooking or abandoning even the most fleeting beauty is an especially pernicious modern crime.

I'm just a journalist who has observed citizens getting so twittery about Olympic gold-medal ceremonies or touchdowns on the tube that they acquiesce to expensive new stadiums in their own backyards.

The 1997 Encores recording features Hans Spialek's newly restored orchestrations, which are as twittery, twinkly and frilly as a maypole strung with bells, hearts and crepe-paper flowers.

Don Mini walked over to it and once again a curious twittery conversation took place, a much longer one this time, with Don Mini doing nearly all the twittering and the swan nodding and nodding.

The only one that misses, "Shepard and Sullivan," tries to graft a clumsy imitation of Sam Shepard's dialogue onto a twittery Gilbert-and-Sullivan-style musical format, but even as comedy the idioms don't mesh.