Jitters

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  jitters \jitters\ n.
     an uneasy state; nervousness; as, the prospect of being
     drafted gave him a bad case of the jitters.
  
     Syn: nervousness, nerves, screaming meemies.
          [WordNet 1.5]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  jitters
       n : extreme nervousness [syn: {heebie-jeebies}, {screaming
           meemies}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  81 Moby Thesaurus words for "jitters":
     agitation, all-overs, apprehension, apprehensiveness, bluster,
     bobbery, boil, boiling, brouhaha, bustle, churn, cold shivers,
     cold sweat, commotion, conturbation, discomposure, disorder,
     disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, dither, dithers, ebullition,
     embroilment, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fever,
     feverishness, fidgets, flap, flurry, fluster, flutteration, foment,
     fume, fuss, heebie-jeebies, hubbub, hurly-burly, inquietude,
     jimjams, jumpiness, jumps, maelstrom, malaise, moil, nerves,
     nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, perturbation, queasiness,
     quivers, restlessness, roil, rout, row, seethe, seething, shakes,
     shivers, skittishness, stir, sweat, swirl, to-do, trembles,
     trepidation, trepidity, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity,
     turbulence, turmoil, twitter, unease, uneasiness, unrest, upset,
     willies