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nounPlural twitstwɪttwɪt British informal A silly or foolish person. 〈非正式，主英〉笨蛋，傻瓜，白痴 Example sentencesExamples - I admit as well that I hate bureaucratically obsessed twits.
- Now I've met enough pompous twits in my time to know one when I hear one.
- He thought of them as the lowest of low in the class known as CTJN class, the ‘creeps, twits, jerks and nerds’ class.
- There is no way I could have watched those two twits - talk about strange bedfellows, by the way - without heaving a brick through the TV set.
- The tragedy is that statisticians and pollsters take these pathetic twits seriously.
- Can you imagine seeing that familiar bunch of florid-faced twits gathering outside a rural bus operator's office to protest about the cut in regular services?
- And these twits think that it's heresy to be in favour of the free market or against the UN.
- These twits have had an unchallenged run in the media for far too long already.
- How can we, in Britain, refer to ourselves as a democracy, when we still allow a bunch of upper-class twits to rule the roost?
- While I'd seen my fair share of mediocre upper middle-class twits leapfrog their contemporaries, I really believed that the results-driven media game was largely a meritocracy.
- Now most of them look like hippies gone wrong or aged twits clinging to their youth.
- In the good old days these guys would have been turned into a Monty Python skit about twits on parade.
- But some of her descendants behave unacceptably, like the worst kind of upper class twits.
- So, don't dismiss tennis as a sport for hot Russian babes and upper-class twits only.
- Three days after the Prime Minister's petulant sneer that only reactionary twits claim education standards have fallen comes pretty devastating evidence that this is indeed the case.
- I'm sure we can imagine the scene a hundred years on: ‘Yes, it used to be a nice old 16th century church but the insides were ripped out by some twits in 2004’.
- The interviewer and the audience, if sincere, are twits.
- None of these twits have done anything that they claimed they would do.
- Both camps, according to White House insiders, are silly twits.
- He seems to know his job rather more thoroughly than the dumb twits who've been along so far.
Synonyms fool, idiot, ass, halfwit, nincompoop, blockhead, buffoon, dunce, dolt, ignoramus, cretin, imbecile, dullard, moron, simpleton, clod
Derivativesadjectiveˈtwɪtɪʃˈtwɪdɪʃ British informal They started the tape recorder and began with such a twittish question - which my memory does not retain - that I could only stare blankly and mutter ‘It's science fiction, innit?’ Example sentencesExamples - By the way, since you responded: Shall I take this as a sign that you are a twittish loser?
- It was charming and twittish at the same time.
- I think what you didn't realize is how twittish and silly your non-helpful post is in a group like this.
- Those who report on Washington, write columns or work on editorials are among the most twittish.
Origin1930s (earlier dialect, in the sense 'talebearer'): perhaps from twit2. The kind of twit that is a silly or foolish person dates only from the 1930s and comes from an English dialect use that meant ‘a tale-bearer’. It may come from twit in the sense ‘to tease or taunt someone, especially in a good-humoured way’, which is a shortening of Old English ætwītan ‘reproach with’.
Rhymesacquit, admit, backlit, bedsit, befit, bit, Brit, Britt, chit, commit, demit, dit, emit, fit, flit, frit, git, grit, hit, intermit, it, kit, knit, legit, lickety-split, lit, manumit, mishit, mitt, nit, omit, outsit, outwit, permit, pit, Pitt, pretermit, quit, remit, retrofit, sit, skit, slit, snit, spit, split, sprit, squit, submit, transmit, whit, wit, writ, zit verbtwitted, twitting, twitstwɪttwɪt [with object]informal Tease or taunt (someone), especially in a good-humoured way. 〈旧〉（尤指善意） 嘲笑，挖苦 her playmates could not twit her about her pigtail Example sentencesExamples - I like to twit my family somewhat, as this will show.
- I twitted Don gently because both Denise and Robert had some harsh words for him in their letters.
- At least the gatherings gave you a chance to twit tame Jesuits about how you didn't believe in their God, but aren't-we-all-good-fellows-anyway.
- This was young Gene Siskel, twitting his rival, later partner-rival, Ebert.
- This happens through their own interactions, and observing each other in interchanges with others - as at a tea stall, when the pair are twitted by their young co-passengers and forced to cook up stories of their honeymoon.
- Three cheers therefore for the man, who a day later in The Times skilfully twitted his ignorant colleague.
- When he twits them, he does it gently, affectionately.
- Before saying grace at the Seniors' annual dinner on Friday night, the priest twitted the new champion he'd played alongside earlier in the day.
- And I've never before seen an Elektra show a sense of humor - her giddy twitting and teasing of Aegisth as she leads him to his bloody doom is positively hilarious.
- Later on, when NR twitted feminists for supporting a later president, Bill Clinton, I got a note from Dworkin pointing out that she didn't.
- A Rastafarian waving a flag twitted me as I pushed through the noisy crowd.
- Annoyance with prevailing trendy social morality can provide some basis too, not to mention some pleasure at twitting what is seen as a ‘politically correct’ liberal establishment.
OriginOld English ætwītan 'reproach with', from æt 'at' + wītan 'to blame'. nounPlural twits informal A state of agitation or nervous excitement. 〈北美〉紧张，激动 we're in a twit about your visit 你的来访让我们激动。
nountwittwɪt British informal A silly or foolish person. 〈非正式，主英〉笨蛋，傻瓜，白痴 Example sentencesExamples - In the good old days these guys would have been turned into a Monty Python skit about twits on parade.
- I admit as well that I hate bureaucratically obsessed twits.
- There is no way I could have watched those two twits - talk about strange bedfellows, by the way - without heaving a brick through the TV set.
- While I'd seen my fair share of mediocre upper middle-class twits leapfrog their contemporaries, I really believed that the results-driven media game was largely a meritocracy.
- The tragedy is that statisticians and pollsters take these pathetic twits seriously.
- The interviewer and the audience, if sincere, are twits.
- These twits have had an unchallenged run in the media for far too long already.
- He thought of them as the lowest of low in the class known as CTJN class, the ‘creeps, twits, jerks and nerds’ class.
- How can we, in Britain, refer to ourselves as a democracy, when we still allow a bunch of upper-class twits to rule the roost?
- But some of her descendants behave unacceptably, like the worst kind of upper class twits.
- So, don't dismiss tennis as a sport for hot Russian babes and upper-class twits only.
- Can you imagine seeing that familiar bunch of florid-faced twits gathering outside a rural bus operator's office to protest about the cut in regular services?
- He seems to know his job rather more thoroughly than the dumb twits who've been along so far.
- Both camps, according to White House insiders, are silly twits.
- Now most of them look like hippies gone wrong or aged twits clinging to their youth.
- Now I've met enough pompous twits in my time to know one when I hear one.
- And these twits think that it's heresy to be in favour of the free market or against the UN.
- None of these twits have done anything that they claimed they would do.
- I'm sure we can imagine the scene a hundred years on: ‘Yes, it used to be a nice old 16th century church but the insides were ripped out by some twits in 2004’.
- Three days after the Prime Minister's petulant sneer that only reactionary twits claim education standards have fallen comes pretty devastating evidence that this is indeed the case.
Synonyms fool, idiot, ass, halfwit, nincompoop, blockhead, buffoon, dunce, dolt, ignoramus, cretin, imbecile, dullard, moron, simpleton, clod
Origin1930s (earlier dialect, in the sense ‘talebearer’): perhaps from twit. verbtwittwɪt [with object]dated, informal Tease or taunt (someone), especially in a good-humored way. 〈旧〉（尤指善意） 嘲笑，挖苦 her playmates could not twit her about her pigtail Example sentencesExamples - When he twits them, he does it gently, affectionately.
- Annoyance with prevailing trendy social morality can provide some basis too, not to mention some pleasure at twitting what is seen as a ‘politically correct’ liberal establishment.
- Three cheers therefore for the man, who a day later in The Times skilfully twitted his ignorant colleague.
- Before saying grace at the Seniors' annual dinner on Friday night, the priest twitted the new champion he'd played alongside earlier in the day.
- Later on, when NR twitted feminists for supporting a later president, Bill Clinton, I got a note from Dworkin pointing out that she didn't.
- I like to twit my family somewhat, as this will show.
- A Rastafarian waving a flag twitted me as I pushed through the noisy crowd.
- This happens through their own interactions, and observing each other in interchanges with others - as at a tea stall, when the pair are twitted by their young co-passengers and forced to cook up stories of their honeymoon.
- This was young Gene Siskel, twitting his rival, later partner-rival, Ebert.
- I twitted Don gently because both Denise and Robert had some harsh words for him in their letters.
- At least the gatherings gave you a chance to twit tame Jesuits about how you didn't believe in their God, but aren't-we-all-good-fellows-anyway.
- And I've never before seen an Elektra show a sense of humor - her giddy twitting and teasing of Aegisth as she leads him to his bloody doom is positively hilarious.
OriginOld English ætwītan ‘reproach with’, from æt ‘at’ + wītan ‘to blame’. nountwittwɪt informal A state of agitation or nervous excitement. 〈北美〉紧张，激动 we're in a twit about your visit 你的来访让我们激动。
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