Definitions for twits

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Spelling: [twit]

IPA: /twɪt/

Twits is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in twits (isttw).

Definitions for twits

noun

1. an act of twitting.
2. a derisive reproach; taunt; gibe.
3. a weak or thin place in yarn caused by uneven spinning.
4. an insignificant, silly, or bothersome person:
5. a confused, excited state: Synonyms: dither, tizzy, stew.

verb (used with object)

1. to taunt, tease, ridicule, etc., with reference to anything embarrassing; gibe at. Synonyms: jeer at, mock, insult, deride.
2. to reproach or upbraid. Synonyms: chide, scold, rebuke, criticize, revile, castigate.

Origin of twits

1520-30; aphetic variant of obsolete atwite, Middle English atwiten, Old English ætwītan to taunt, equivalent to æt- at¹ + wītan to blame

Examples for twits

Do you know, Tishy dear, I was just going to twit you with the negro and his spots.

The twit, Guy Clinch, is the unlucky father of Marmaduke, an 18-month-old prodigy of domestic mayhem.

In that case I give you leave to twit 'em as hard as you like.

The profession of a gentleman at large, with which you twit me, I hereby renounce.

But in one segment, Ray gets her seasonings mixed up (twice), giving critics all the more reason to call her a twit.

From that evening, in fact, they watched for every opportunity to twit her about her hopeless dream.

They twit me in the teeth, because I cannot say who my father and mother were.

To Steele, surely, goes the prize of Republican twit of the Week.

If you are afraid, we will both back out, and then neither can twit the other.

He did give us the house, but it ain't for you to twit me of that.