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Twixter vs Twister - What's the difference?

twixter | twister |

As a noun twixter

is a young adult who has yet to adopt typical adult behaviours.

As a proper noun twister is

a party game that requires several players on a single mat to straddle four colored rows of dots in random positions without falling.

twixter

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A young adult who has yet to adopt typical adult behaviours.
  • References

    * [http://www.google.co.uk/search?tbs=bks%3A1&tbo=1&q=%22a+twixter%22&btnG=Search+Books]

    See also

    * adultescent * kidult

    twister

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who twists.
  • # One whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving.
  • The instrument used in twisting, or making twists.
  • * Wallis
  • He, twirling his twister , makes a twist of the twine.
  • (colloquial) A tornado.
  • (carpentry) A girder
  • (Craig)
  • (dated) The inner part of the thigh, the proper place to rest upon when on horseback.
  • (British, colloquial) A crook, a villain.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter IX , passage=“I don't know if it's my imagination, Kipper,” I said, “but something gives me the impression that at moment of going to press you aren't too sold on Bobbie.” He shrugged a shoulder. “Oh, I wouldn't say that. Apart from wishing I could throttle the young twister with my bare hands and jump on the remains with hobnailed boots, I don't feel much about her one way or the other.”}}
  • The party game Twister, usually capitalized, or a variant.
  • Derived terms

    * titty twister * tongue-twister

    See also

    * dust devil * water spout * willy-willy

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