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dithered

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dith·er

[dith-er]
noun
1.
a trembling; vibration.
2.
a state of flustered excitement or fear.
verb (used without object)
3.
to act irresolutely; vacillate.
4.
North England. to tremble with excitement or fear.

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Dithered is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

Origin:
1640–50; variant of didder (late Middle English diddere); compare dodder

dith·er·er, noun
dith·er·y, adjective
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dither
1640s, "to quake, tremble," phonetic variant of M.E. didderen (late 14c.), of uncertain origin. The sense of "vacillate, be anxious" is from 1819. Related: Dithered; dithering.
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dither definition

[ˈdɪðɚ]
  1. n.
    a state of confusion. (See also in a dither.) : He can't seem to get out of this dither he's in.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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