do they have to wait 30 minutes?

The Wordnik Word of the Day for August 21, 2012 is

chittering-bite
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(noun) A bit of bread eaten by those who have been swimming, to prevent shivering or the chattering of their teeth with the cold; a shivering-bite. Also called chittering-crust and chittering-piece.

‘Chittering-bite’ is Scottish in origin.

 

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It was the earliest warm day that spring; some of the boys had ventured a dip among the Read More...