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

Anagrams

• shirted