twit

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Since this twit is anti-media,,,,,,,,, why don't the media follow his advice and quit covering him then maybe at long last he will GO AWAY!!

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  1. transitive verb To taunt, ridicule, or tease, especially for embarrassing mistakes or faults. See Synonyms at ridicule.
  2. noun The act or an instance of twitting.
  3. noun A reproach, gibe, or taunt.
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  • We go on these trips and she pretends to be a twit, and she really knows more than the rest of us do. —  EQMM, Sep/Oct 2005
  • Travis was turning her into a nervous twit, and if she didn't get away from him soon, heaven only knew what she would do. —  Garwood, Julie - Rose 2 - One Pink Rose
  • LouderVoice (at right where a lab rat is making a Louder Voice review by SMS), twit, offers recession-beating advice in a cover story published by —  Inside View from Ireland
  • This twit is bound to know more Urdu than she is of Sarah Palin's language. —  LewRockwell.com Blog
  • Red Faction: Guerrilla eons ago became a brilliant send-up of said pots of twit, then went on to become an actual in-game item. —  Hecklerspray
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  1. Short for obsolete atwite, from Middle English atwiten, from Old English ætwītan : æt, at; see at1 + wītan, to reproach; see weid- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also twite, twight; by apheresis from atwite, from Middle English atwiten, from Anglo-Saxon ætwitan, reproach, from æt- (see at-) + witan, reproach: see wite.
  2. from twit, v.
 

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