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twit
noun
an inept and ineffectual person UK, 1934
Widely popularised by UK radio comedy The Goons (1951–60) and celebrated by Monty Python’s Flying Circus in “The Upper-Class Twit of the Year” sketch (1970).- [I]t begins to get on me nerves, this place, being surrounded with all these pink-faced twits, with their phoney carry on. — John Peter Jones, Feather Pluckers, p. 43, 1964
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 7, Fall 1980
- Yes, he’s a congenital twit and we’ve got no business publishing crap like that. — Carl Hiaasen, Tourist Season, p. 77, 1986
- That false cousin you saddled me with and that whey-faced twit of a girl who had him by the pecker was going to do me in. — Robert Campbell, Nibbled to Death by Ducks, p. 274, 1989
- It was Mrs. Preston, mother of a well-known affected twit[.] — C.D. Payne, Cut to the Twisp, p. 46, 2001
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