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twit
/twɪt/
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What does twit mean?
verb
- To blame or reproach (someone), especially in a good-natured or teasing manner; also, to ridicule or tease (someone).
- To ignore or kill file (a user on a bulletin board system).
- To blame or reproach, especially in a good-natured or teasing manner.
More meanings (10)
verb
- To be indiscreet; to gossip.
- (archaic) To criticize or disapprove of (something), especially in a good-natured or teasing manner.
- (obsolete) Followed by it: to speak or write (something) in a taunting or teasing manner.
noun
- A jibe, reproach, or taunt, especially one made in a good-natured or teasing manner.
- (informal) An annoying or foolish person.
- A short, high-pitched call of a small bird, or a similar sound made by something else; a cheep, a chirp, a tweet.
- (informal) Chiefly in the form in a twit: clipping of twitter (“a state of excitement or nervousness”).
- (archaic) A person who chatters or gossips inanely; a chatterer, a gossip or gossiper; also, a person who divulges private information about others or is indiscreet; a tattletale.
- (archaic) Clipping of twitter (“a knot or other defect in a thread or yarn which hinders spinning or weaving”).
interjection
- Used to represent the short, high-pitched call of a small bird, or a similar sound made by something else: cheep, tweet.
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IPA pronunciation
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“That wouldn’t be so hard if people wouldn’t twit me about my looks,” said Anne with a sigh.
V. accuse, charge, tax, impute, twit, taunt with, reproach.
More book examples (3)
Shall I live for my foes to twit me?
St. George Burton was wicked enough to twit her for her spelling, and to say that he found out as many as seventeen words incorrectly spelt in one letter.
Hath he not twit our sovereign lady here With ignominious words, though clerkly couched, As if she had suborned some to swear False allegations to o’erthrow his state?