Crossword clues for twerp
twerp
- Contemptible sort
- Annoying sort
- Nerd's kin
- Insignificant sort
- Annoying fellow
- Irritating one
- Pesky person
- Pathetic one
- Insignificant fellow
- Annoying pest
- Silly little guy
- Little shit
- Insignificant individual
- Annoying runt of a person
- Wimpy guy
- Unimportant one
- Pencil-necked geek
- Nerd's buddy
- Little pill
- Impertinent pipsqueak
- Annoying, ignorable sort
- Annoying squirt
- Annoying little pipsqueak
- Annoying dweeb
- Nerdy guy
- Hardly Mr. Cool
- Little nothing
- Pipsqueak
- Weenie
- Insignificant type
- Dweeb
- Impudent nobody
- Insignificant one
- Insignificant punk
- Punk
- Someone who is regarded as contemptible
- Cousin of a nerd or wimp
- Schmo
- Saphead
- Nebbish
- Nerd's cousin
- Silly person taking article away from Belgian port
- Belgians live here, not an idiot
- Idiot trading wonky electricals round Peckham initially
- Contemptible one
- Despicable one
- Despicable sort
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
of unknown origin; OED and Barnhart give earliest date as 1925, but the "Dictionary of American Slang" gives a first reference of 1874 (but without citation and I can't find it), which, if correct, would rule out the usual theory that it is from the proper name of T.W. Earp, a student at Oxford c.1911, who kindled wrath "in the hearts of the rugger-playing stalwarts at Oxford, when he was president of the Union, by being the last, most charming, and wittiest of the 'decadents.' " [Rawson]\n\n"Mean to say you never heard of Sinzy? Why, he's one of the greatest characters in this town. He's a terrible twerp to look at -- got a face like bad news from home, but I guess he's the best jazz piano player in the world."
[Julian Street, "Cross-Sections," 1923]
Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context UK colloquial English) A fool, a twit. 2 (context US colloquial English) A small or puny person; one regarded as insignificant, contemptible. 3 (context US colloquial English) A person who can be bully playfully, or easily teased. Sometimes used as a pet-name (often for a younger sibling). n. 1 (context UK colloquial English) A fool, a twit. 2 (context US colloquial English) A small or puny person; one regarded as insignificant, contemptible. 3 (context US colloquial English) A person who can be bully playfully, or easily teased. Sometimes used as a pet-name (often for a younger sibling).
WordNet
Wikipedia
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Usage examples of "twerp".
Forest Glen properly for that little skateboarding twerp, Aaron Kaplan, to meet her.
ETIQUETTE This twerp came into the arcade, a pasty faced kid with a carefully coiffed blond wave.
There are other tensions which the war has brought out but which are somewhat less obvious than the jealousy caused by the Black Market or the discontent of soldiers blancoing their gasmasks under the orders of twerps of officers.
I feel like marching over and twisting the little penises off those twerps just to teach them a lesson or two!
He was perhaps helped along in drawing this conclusion by the learned debate which promptly erupted between Magrit and Zulkeh over the precise length of the line of customers which would form to seek the asphyxiations of offensive twerps.
In such tales, the anti-hero was often a wretched little twerp who could never do anything right.
In the corporate world, it was always best to deal with lower-level twerps because twerps always wanted to make themselves seem important even if they had to give away the store to create the impression.
Twerp muttered, glancing at the board and the relative location of his hotels and Zeke's thimble.
We've dumped all the real twerps by nowHendrick's only shortcoming, aside from being clumsy, was that he thought he knew all the answers.
The twerps have gone home and those that are left are eager, anxious to please, and on the bounceas cute as a litter of collie pups.
We’ve dumped all the real twerps by now—Hendrick’s only shortcoming, aside from being clumsy, was that he thought he knew all the answers.
The twerps have gone home and those that are left are eager, anxious to please, and on the bounce—as cute as a litter of collie pups.
Knew it was torture for me to see her make out with other people, even twerps as nobody as me.
There are other tensions which the war has brought out but which are somewhat less obvious than the jealousy caused by the Black Market or the discontent of soldiers blancoing their gasmasks under the orders of twerps of officers.