twerp

Anlam (İngilizce)

1. (UK, colloquial) A fool, a twit.
2. (US, childish, colloquial) A small or puny person; one regarded as insignificant, contemptible.
3. (US, childish, colloquial) A person who can be bullied playfully, or easily teased. Sometimes used as a pet-name (often for a younger sibling).

Kavramlar

ulan

velet

👦

herif

Eş anlamlılar

twirp

twit

rude fellow

chump

dolt

dork

goon

lame

muggins

nincompoop

booby

shmo

square

thick

tyke

whippersnapper

dumbass

tike

schmo

boor

bozo

Çeviriler

Kerl

pendejo

toix

χάχας

andouille

pauvre type

gugusse

lomperd

ettertje

estúpido

idiota

cretino

imbécil

sujeto

الغبيّ

(IPA) olarak telaffuz edilir

/twɝp/

Etimoloji (İngilizce)

Of uncertain origin; originally British slang of the 1910s. In a letter, dated 6 October 1944, J. R. R. Tolkien mentions a contemporary of his at Oxford University T.W. Earp, calling him "the original twerp"; but no corroborating evidence for this etymology has come to light. Other suggestions include: a clipping of Antwerp (“type of racing pigeon that flew between Antwerp and London”); the onomatopoeic twirp (“imitation of the sound of a bird”); a dialectal variant of dwarf (compare Middle English dwerf); Welsh twp (“a fool”).