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Twitted vs Twatted - What's the difference?

twitted | twatted |

As verbs the difference between twitted and twatted

is that twitted is past tense of twit while twatted is past tense of twat.

As an adjective twatted is

extremely drunk, intoxicated.

twitted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (twit)

    • 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

    twatted

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (vulgar, slang, British) Extremely drunk, intoxicated
  • (used in combinations) Having a particular sort of twat

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (twat)

    • Synonyms

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