Twit vs X - What's the difference?
twit | x |
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
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
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As a verb twit
is to reproach, blame; to ridicule or tease.As a noun twit
is a reproach, gibe or taunt.As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.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 !