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Meanings of twit in English

Portuguese
idiota
Catalan
ruc

Someone who is regarded as contemptible.

        idiota
        Portuguese
        zombaria
        Catalan
        mofa
        Spanish
        vituperio

        Aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing.

              zombaria
              Catalan
              amoïnar
              Spanish
              befarse

              Harass with persistent criticism or carping.

                  amoïnar
                  Usage of twit in English
                  1
                  What if I'd told this condescending little twit his report was good?
                  The Guardian
                  2
                  But Englishmen should be the last to twit her with such ignorance.
                  North America — Volume 1
                  3
                  A nice fellow he is to twit a man with the bottle.
                  His Grace of Osmonde / Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Lif...
                  4
                  He was too wise then to twit those others with their unbelief.
                  The Flying U's Last Stand
                  5
                  For all that, he didn't seem like too much of a twit.
                  A nose for justice
                  6
                  I'd have won that Oscar instead of that Brit twit Vivien Leigh.
                  Super
                  7
                  And don't you dare go to a sperm bank yet, you twit.
                  Sisters
                  8
                  And it is certainly none of your concern, you shitty little twit!
                  The devil's touch
                  9
                  I think I know what has you in such a twit.
                  When darkness comes
                  10
                  He could twit Elodie with her foibles in his old way.
                  The Mountebank
                  11
                  You think I'd do something just because some government-trained twit tells me to?
                  Our little secret
                  12
                  Henceforth let no one twit the smoker with idleness and unimportance.
                  The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom / Considered in...
                  13
                  I am still strong, and not as the suitors twit me with being.
                  The Odyssey / Rendered into English prose for the use of those w...
                  14
                  I fancy he meant to twit my cousin for he said to me:
                  Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker / Sometime Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on ...
                  15
                  To this Hildebrand made answer: Why twit ye me with that?
                  The Nibelungenlied
                  16
                  If you want to twit us with bein' poor, you can, Jennie Stebbins.
                  The Portion of Labor
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