twat
English
Etymology
Unknown origin. Possibly cognate with (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse þveit (“cut, slit, forest clearing”).
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 331: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /twæt/, [tʰw̥æt]
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 331: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "US" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /twɑt/, [tʰw̥ɑt]
Audio (UK): (file) Audio (UK): (file) - Rhymes: -æt
Noun
twat (plural twats)
- (vulgar, slang) The vagina or vulva.
- (UK, New Zealand, sometimes US, offensive, vulgar, slang) A contemptible and stupid person, idiot.
Usage notes
Erroneously used by Robert Browning in Pippa Passes (1841) to denote part of a nun's habit, based on a misunderstanding of lines from a satirical poem Vanity of Vanities (1660): "They talk’t of his having a Cardinalls Hat / They’d send him as soon an Old Nuns Twat." For more, see Wikipedia.
Derived terms
Translations
vulgar slang, vagina
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idiot
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Verb
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- (transitive, British, slang) To hit, slap.
- 1989, Red Dwarf, series III, episode 3 (Polymorph)
- Arnold Rimmer: What are we gonna do?
- Dave Lister: Well, I say let's get out there and twat it!
- 2005, S. J. Smith, Joe Public
- "Umbridge'll twat him into next week."
- 2006, Martyn J. Pass, Dani Pass, Waiting for Red
- "I'd love to twat her over the head with this. What d'ya reckon?"
- "She'd certainly bleed a lot."
- 2007, Mark Button, Security Officers And Policing: Powers, Culture and Control in the Governance of Private Space:
- That's the only time I have been twatted by someone.
- 1989, Red Dwarf, series III, episode 3 (Polymorph)
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