Twixter vs Twister - What's the difference?
twixter | twister |
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
(colloquial) A tornado.
(carpentry) A girder
(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.
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
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References
* [http://www.google.co.uk/search?tbs=bks%3A1&tbo=1&q=%22a+twixter%22&btnG=Search+Books]See also
* adultescent * kidulttwister
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Noun
(en noun)- He, twirling his twister , makes a twist of the twine.
- (Craig)