Stupid vs Twit - What's the difference?
stupid | twit |
Lacking in intelligence or exhibiting the quality of having been done by someone lacking in intelligence.
To the point of stupor.
(archaic) Characterized by or in a state of stupor; paralysed.
* 1702 Alexander Pope, Sappho 128:
(archaic) Lacking sensation; inanimate; destitute of consciousness; insensate.
* 1744 George Berkeley, Siris §190:
(slang) Amazing.
(slang) damn, annoying, darn
A stupid person; a fool.
* 1910 , , ‘The Strategist’, Reginald in Russia :
* 1922 , Elizabeth G. Young, Homestead ranch
* 1996 , Anita Rau Badamim, Tamarind Mem
To reproach, blame; to ridicule or tease.
* 1590 , Shakespeare. History of Henry VI , Part II, Act III, Scene I
* 1955 , edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 106:
* 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
* Tillotson
* L'Estrange
(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 )
* 2002 , "Chris Hoppman", FidoNet Feed Needed'' (on newsgroup ''alt.bbs )
A reproach, gibe or taunt.
A foolish or annoying person.
* (rfdate) (Larry Kramer), Just Say No
As nouns the difference between stupid and twit
is that stupid is a stupid person; a fool while twit is a reproach, gibe or taunt.As an adjective stupid
is lacking in intelligence or exhibiting the quality of having been done by someone lacking in intelligence.As an adverb stupid
is extremely.As a verb twit is
to reproach, blame; to ridicule or tease.stupid
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- Because it's a big stupid jellyfish!
- Neurobiology bores me stupid .
- No sigh to rise, no tear had pow'r to flow, Fix'd in a stupid lethargy of woe.
- Were it not for [fire], the whole wou'd be one great stupid inanimate mass.
- That dunk was stupid! His head was above the rim!
- I fell over the stupid wire.
Synonyms
* dense, dumb, retarded, unintelligent * (especially in the Caribbean) stupidy * See alsoDerived terms
* stupe * stupefy * stupid-ass * stupidity * stupidly * stupidnessReferences
*Noun
(en noun)- ‘You stupid !’ screamed the girls, ‘we've got to guess the word.’
- "What a stupid I am!" Harry exclaimed, as she watched the man ride away in the distance.
- At least those stupids got their money's worth out of this country before they burnt their lungs out.
twit
English
Verb
(twitt)- "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? " -
- Mr. Cramer, a policeman, came this morning and twitted me for having let a murderer hoodwink me.
- 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
- This these scoffers twitted the Christian with.
- Aesop minds men of their errors, without twitting them for what is amiss.
- 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.
- 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)- What do you mean, since when did I become such a radical fairy? Since I started knowing twits' like you, you ' twit !