twat

English

Etymology

Unknown origin. Possibly cognate with (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse þveit (“cut, slit, forest clearing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /twæt/, [tʰw̥æt]
• IPA^(key): /twɑt/, [tʰw̥ɑt]

• Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -æt

Noun

twat (plural twats)

1. (vulgar, slang) The vagina or vulva.
2. (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

• twatzi

Translations

vulgar slang, vagina

• Bulgarian: путка f (putka)
• Catalan: cony (ca) m
• Czech: píča (cs) f
• Danish: fisse (da), kusse (da)
• Dutch: kut (nl) f
• Esperanto: piĉo (eo)
• Estonian: vitt (et), puts, tuss
• Finnish: pillu (fi), tussu (fi), vittu (fi)
• French: chatte (fr) f, con (fr) m
• Galician: cona (gl) f, conacha f, crica (gl) f, grila (gl) f, catavís m, corrancha f, xíxara f
• German: Fotze (de) f
• Greek: μουνί (el) n (mouní)
• Greenlandic: utsuk
• Hebrew: כוס (he)
• Hindi: चूत (hi) f (cūt)
• Hungarian: pina (hu)
• Indonesian: memek (id), tempik (id), meki
• Irish: pit f
• Italian: figa (it) f
• Japanese: まんこ (ja) (manko), おまんこ (omanko)
• Javanese: tempik (jv), turuk (jv), bawuk (jv)
• Khmer: កណ្ដួយ (km) (kɑnduəy)
• Korean: 보지 (ko) (boji), 씹 (ko) (ssip)
• Latvian: petene
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Lithuanian: pyzda (lt) f
• Macedonian: пичка f (pička), минџа f (mindža)
• Malay: puki
• Maltese: għoxx f
• Northern Sami: cinˈná
• Norwegian: fitte (no) f
• Persian: کس (fa) (kos)
• Polish: piczka (pl) f, cipa (pl) f
• Portuguese: buceta (pt) f
• Romanian: pizdă (ro) f
• Russian: манда́ (ru) f (mandá), пизда́ (ru) f (pizdá)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пичка f, пизда f

  Roman: pička (sh) f, pizda (sh) f

• Slovak: piča f
• Slovene: pizda (sl) f
• Spanish: coño (es) m, chocho (es)
• Swedish: fitta (sv), mutta (sv)
• Tagalog: puke
• Thai: หี (th) (hǐi), หอย (th) (hɔ̌i)
• Turkish: am (tr)
• Udmurt: пирог (pirog)
• Venetian: móna f
• Vietnamese: lồn (vi)

idiot

• Arabic: مُغَفَّل (muḡaffal)
• Finnish: ääliö (fi), typerys (fi)
• French: con (fr)
• Italian: coglione (it)
• Japanese: 馬鹿 (ja) (ばか, baka)
• Macedonian: гомнар m (gomnar)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: idiota (pt), parvo (pt)
• Romanian: idiot (ro) m, prost (ro) m, tâmpit (ro) m
• Russian: балда́ (ru) m or f (baldá), идио́т (ru) m (idiót)
• Spanish: gilí m or f
• Swedish: idiot (sv), kötthuvud (sv) n, rövhål (sv) n
• Venetian: móna m or f

Verb

1. (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.

Anagrams

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