twit

Meaning

Verb

1. (transitive) To blame or reproach (someone), especially in a good-natured or teasing manner; also, to ridicule or tease (someone).
2. (archaic, transitive) To criticize or disapprove of (something), especially in a good-natured or teasing manner.
3. (transitive) To ignore or kill file (a user on a bulletin board system).
4. (obsolete, transitive) Followed by it: to speak or write (something) in a taunting or teasing manner.
5. (intransitive, transitive) To blame or reproach, especially in a good-natured or teasing manner.
6. (dialectal, intransitive) To be indiscreet; to gossip.

Noun

1. A jibe, reproach, or taunt, especially one made in a good-natured or teasing manner.
2. (informal) An annoying or foolish person.
3. (British, Ireland, archaic, dialectal) 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.

Intj

Used to represent the short, high-pitched call of a small bird, or a similar sound made by something else: cheep, tweet.

Noun

A short, high-pitched call of a small bird, or a similar sound made by something else; a cheep, a chirp, a tweet.

Noun

Chiefly in the form in a twit: clipping of twitter (“a state of excitement or nervousness”).

Noun

Clipping of twitter (“a knot or other defect in a thread or yarn which hinders spinning or weaving”).

Synonyms

twerp

taunt

twirp

cod

stupid person

jerk

fool

ride

mock

mockery

tantalise

tantalize

bait

taunting

tease

jerk

rag

rally

razz

simpleton

vituperate

jeer

gawk

gibe

goon

goose

🪿

guy

half-wit

idiot

inveigh

klutz

lame

lampoon

laugh at

loon

moron

mug

muggins

nincompoop

ninny

nitwit

nitwitted

oaf

pinhead

pompous

reproach

revise

ridicule

rubberneck

schlep

Translations

imbécile

imbécil

takılma

gugusse

aufziehen

takılmak

andouille

Schwachkopf

kızdırmak

spot

ridícul

pampana

fastidiar

Dussel

molestar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/twɪt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: atwiten

Inherited from Old English: ætwītan

In summary

PIE word
*h₂éd
The verb is an aphetic form of atwite (“(obsolete) to blame, reproach”), from Middle English atwiten (“to attribute (something) to someone; to blame (something) on someone; to accuse or charge (someone) with something; to speak ill of; to taunt”), from Old English ætwītan (“to blame, reproach; to censure, upbraid; to taunt”), from æt- (prefix meaning ‘at, near; toward’) + wītan (“to accuse; to blame, reproach”) (from Proto-Germanic *wītaną (“to punish; to torment; to know; to see”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see”)).
The noun is probably derived from the verb, although it is attested in print earlier.