twit

Meaning

Verb

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

schmo

scoff

scorn

shmo

simp

sneer

soft headed

spoof

square

stooge

stupid

target

thick

shlep

turkey

twat

tyke

ass

🍑

witless

berk

dumbass

goofball

tike

bird-brain

schlepper

scum bag

shlepper

simperer

wally

birdbrain

blame

blaspheme

blasphemy

blaze

booby

bozo

carp

chump

cretin

deride

derision

dingbat

dolt

dork

dullard

dumbbell

dumbo

fathead

fleer

fop

Pronounced as (IPA)

/twɪt/

Etymology

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.