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informal BritishA silly or foolish person.
- ‘Both camps, according to White House insiders, are silly twits.’
- ‘He thought of them as the lowest of low in the class known as CTJN class, the ‘creeps, twits, jerks and nerds’ class.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘But some of her descendants behave unacceptably, like the worst kind of upper class twits.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘The tragedy is that statisticians and pollsters take these pathetic twits seriously.’
- ‘He seems to know his job rather more thoroughly than the dumb twits who've been along so far.’
- ‘Now most of them look like hippies gone wrong or aged twits clinging to their youth.’
- ‘I admit as well that I hate bureaucratically obsessed twits.’
- ‘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?’
- ‘None of these twits have done anything that they claimed they would do.’
- ‘In the good old days these guys would have been turned into a Monty Python skit about twits on parade.’
- ‘So, don't dismiss tennis as a sport for hot Russian babes and upper-class twits only.’
- ‘These twits have had an unchallenged run in the media for far too long already.’
- ‘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 interviewer and the audience, if sincere, are twits.’
- ‘Now I've met enough pompous twits in my time to know one when I hear one.’
fool, idiot, ass, halfwit, nincompoop, blockhead, buffoon, dunce, dolt, ignoramus, cretin, imbecile, dullard, moron, simpleton, clodView synonyms
Origin
1930s (earlier dialect, in the sense ‘talebearer’): perhaps from twit.
Pronunciation
transitive verbtwits, twitting, twitted
[with object]informal, datedTease or taunt (someone), especially in a good-humored way.
‘her playmates could not twit her about her pigtail’- ‘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.’
- ‘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'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.’
- ‘He maintained that an occasional prank was essential to the spirit of journalism, earning a reputation for twitting colleagues and candidates alike.’
Origin
Old English ætwītan ‘reproach with’, from æt ‘at’ + wītan ‘to blame’.
Pronunciation
noun
informalA state of agitation or nervous excitement.
‘we're in a twit about your visit’
Origin
Probably from twitter.
Pronunciation
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