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Twit vs Loser - What's the difference?

twit | loser |

As verbs the difference between twit and loser

is that twit is to reproach, blame; to ridicule or tease while loser is .

As a noun twit

is a reproach, gibe or taunt.

twit

English

Verb

(twitt)
  • To reproach, blame; to ridicule or tease.
  • * 1590 , Shakespeare. History of Henry VI , Part II, Act III, Scene I
  • "Hath he not twit our sovereign lady here
    With ignominious words, though clerkly couch'd,
    As if she had suborned some to swear
    False allegations to o'erthrow his state? " -
  • * 1955 , edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 106:
  • Mr. Cramer, a policeman, came this morning and twitted me for having let a murderer hoodwink me.
  • * 2007 , Bernard Porter, "Did He Puff his Crimes to Please a Bloodthirsty Readership?", review of Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer'' by Tim Jeal, ''London Review of Books , 5 April, 29:7, p. 10
  • H. R. Fox Bourne, secretary of the Aborigines' Protection Society – often twitted for being an ‘armchair critic’ – wrote in a review of one of Stanley's books
  • * Tillotson
  • This these scoffers twitted the Christian with.
  • * L'Estrange
  • Aesop minds men of their errors, without twitting them for what is amiss.
  • (computing) To ignore or killfile (a user on a bulletin board system).
  • * 1995 , "Michelle Jackson", Debutante/Question about Tori Shirts'' (on newsgroup ''rec.music.tori-amos )
  • However, on the Internet BBS's such as Quartz (now dead), Prism, Monsoon, Sunset, ect(SIC), someone pulling that kind of crap is likely to get flamed quite fast and twitted before he/she can breathe.
  • * 2002 , "Chris Hoppman", FidoNet Feed Needed'' (on newsgroup ''alt.bbs )
  • And no, there is no "thought purification program" that can filter out some folks(SIC) obscene ideas that can be expressed w/o written vulgarities. That has to be simply "dealt" with, either by ignoring or twitting the individual that offends habitually.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A reproach, gibe or taunt.
  • A foolish or annoying person.
  • * (rfdate) (Larry Kramer), Just Say No
  • What do you mean, since when did I become such a radical fairy? Since I started knowing twits' like you, you ' twit !

    Usage notes

    In the UK and UK English-speaking areas, usually used in a humorous or affectionate manner.

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    Synonyms

    * See also

    loser

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive.
  • In a two-horse race there is always one winner and one loser .
    He was always a good loser .
  • Something of poor quality.
  • That dictionary is a loser !
  • A person who is frequently unsuccessful in life.
  • That guy is a born loser !
    I’m a constant loser in love.
  • (derogatory) A contemptible or unfashionable person.
  • That person is a loser !
  • One who or that which loses something, such as extra weight, car keys, etc.
  • * 1999 , Larry Medsker, ?Lakhmi C. Jain, Recurrent Neural Networks: Design and Applications (ISBN 0849371813), page 192:
  • Another way to speed search (in general) is to order or bias the hypothesis space based on some heuristic. Suppose you are a habitual car key loser and that you keep track of where your keys turn up after each search.
  • * 2004 , Marianna S. Katona, Tales from the Berlin Wall: Recollections of Frequent Crossings (ISBN 3833404396):
  • But a West German reporting a lost passport in East Berlin during the years of the Wall was treated to a criminal investigation, with the passport loser as the potential criminal.
  • * 2005', Maggie Greenwood-Robinson, ''The Biggest '''Loser : The Weight Loss Program to Transform Your Body, Health and Life (ISBN 13: 978-1-59486-384-4)
  • * 2009 , Jane Bryant Quinn, Making the Most of Your Money Now
  • You're counting on this insurance company to pay you a check many years in the future. But for some companies, disability coverage has been a money loser .
  • * 2010 , Cutting Myself in Half: 150 Pounds Lost, One Byte at a Time (ISBN 0757313590), page 109:
  • You have to think of yourself as an already amazing person who's hiding behind extra weight—a superhero in a disguise. If you follow the program, change the message from “I'm a big loser” to “I'm a big weight loser .”

    Synonyms

    * (person who consistently loses) failure

    Antonyms

    * winner

    Derived terms

    * born loser * loser cruiser * loser sign * sore loser * three-time loser

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