dithers

English

Verb

dithers

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of dither

Noun

dithers pl (plural only)

  1. (slang) The creeps; a feeling of fear or anxiety.
    • 2017, J. C. Staudt, Children of the Wastes:
      “It gives me the dithers, thinking of the damage that maniac could do if he ever took the headship. He could reinstate the cycle of chosen births, or enact any of a hundred other terrible laws.”

References
  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

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