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  • adjective colloquial Like a twerp; puny and obnoxious.

Etymologies

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twerp +‎ -y

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Examples

  • He is a "twerpy" nerd, with his little delicate hands, and his shifty eyes.

    White House steadfast on pledge of no middle-class tax increase 2009

  • And these days, even highbrow law professors have suggestions, too - suggestions that range from "twerpy" to

    Yahoo! Sports - Top News Blake Glidden 2010

  • Supposedly Dale McGlothlin (who was pretty big) threw Crafaik (who’s kind of twerpy) against a plate-glass window.

    Jackson Has String of Assault Convictions at cvillenews.com 2004

  • A bitter, rabid weasel of a man who thought that possessing the title of archbishop somehow made him immune to the laws of God and men, and a twerpy, unscrupulous banker who had more ambition than sense.

    The Poet Prince KATHLEEN MCGOWAN 2010

  • That must be how his family gathered all those shares in Halliburton, so beloved of aggressive twerpy lefties such as yourself, pal.

    Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009

  • If the state government is flush, no one probably cares, but when times are hard for the state, as they are now, all these little twerpy laws of which there are no end are being enforced and fines levied.

    Odds and ends | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009

  • No, there isn't, at least not on the evidence offered here, but there's something incredibly perverse about a third "Mummy" installment that lacks a standard mummy, and something incredibly turgid about the bonhomie-cum-rivalry between Rick O'Connell, the mummy-hunter played by Brendan Fraser, and his twerpy archaeologist son.

    A charming roundelay from Allen 2008

  • No, there isn't, at least not on the evidence offered here, but there's something incredibly perverse about a third "Mummy" installment that lacks a standard mummy, and something incredibly turgid about the bonhomie-cum-rivalry between Rick O'Connell, the mummy-hunter played by Brendan Fraser, and his twerpy archaeologist son.

    Leo's Tenderness, 2008

  • No, there isn't, at least not on the evidence offered here, but there's something incredibly perverse about a third "Mummy" installment that lacks a standard mummy, and something incredibly turgid about the bonhomie-cum-rivalry between Rick O'Connell, the mummy-hunter played by Brendan Fraser, and his twerpy archaeologist son.

    Abba-dabba doo! 2008

  • "Your most sycophantic thing of all was to say you would rejoin the party if Iain led it," How is that sycophantic, given that Iain is not in a position to do me any favours or offer me any personal preferment, you vacuous little twerpy thing.

    Memories of the Falklands 2007

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