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Silly goose
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twit
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Word definitions in WordNet
v. harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie" [syn: tease , razz , rag , cod , tantalize , tantalise , bait , ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"foolish, stupid and ineffectual person," 1934, British slang, popular 1950s-60s, crossed over to U.S. with British sitcoms. It probably developed from twit (v.) in the sense of "reproach," but it may be influenced by nitwit .
Usage examples of twit.
My brother, Titus, has a second cousin, son of a senator, who could almost be his twin, except that no one could ever mix them up, because Porphyrio looks like the evil little twit he is, and Titus looks plain nice.
So, Twit confessed her Screamer status and Isuzu her real age, sex, and expiration-datedness.
He had asked for her to escort him to the door whilst his mama stayed behind for a short private talk with Torry and twitted her about Alien Marriott before he left.
She grinned suddenly, unable to resist aji opportunity to twit him, if only to distract herself from her misery.
He would twit her with Jacobinical opinions and quote her sayings in company--sometimes jocularly, sometimes ruefully, for he himself posed as a staunch Government man.
Used to twit him with being a moneygrubber and with growing a corporation and being a Philistine generally.
Now Belinda was missing, and Socrates was sitting game for silly twits like Miss Tolliver-Jones.
I twitted her as I pushed myself back till I was crammed inside her to the very hilt, wanting that luxuriating completeness of being thoroughly and fully housed inside her warm narrow quivering grotto.
If this twit had not been the only attractive one in the over-100 wpm pool.
Jasper twitted you with not being my dragon--perhaps you could be my dragonette instead!
Receiving nothing but indignant rejoinders, he twits Susanna with loving the lad, and more than intimates that Cherubino is in love with the Countess.
Fools, especially snotty twits like the man who had superciliously informed him that slavery could not possibly antedate genetic science, he did not suffer gladly.
And it ill beseemeth thee so to twit thine Empress when all the world doth know thee for a mother o' the best, while I—" She shrugged wryly, and her friends laughed.
There’s just the Blackville commune, those self-righteous twits down at Gulp Creek, and Satan knows what savages beyond them.
This mousy French Canadian, this glorified nurse, this twit with the phony accent.