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Twitten (noun) means a narrow path between walls or hedges, often on a slope, sometimes leading between buildings to a yard or street.

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A narrow path between walls or hedges, often on a slope, sometimes leading between buildings to a yard or street.
"On her rounds, she preferred to walk around Lewes via the twittens, the steep high-walled alleyways that ran betwixt and between the old buildings of the town." — Matthew De Abaitua, If Then (2015)
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Etymology

A corruption of betwixt and between. Alternatively, it may derive from Low German "twiete" (alley).

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"twitten" (noun) means a narrow path between walls or hedges, often on a slope, sometimes leading between buildings to a yard or street.
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Other words for "twitten" include alley.

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