twitchet

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Uncertain. Perhaps from twitch +‎ -et. First attested in the late 19th century.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈtwɪt͡ʃɪt/
  • Audio (AU)(file)

Noun[edit]

twitchet (plural twitchets)

  1. (US slang, dialectal) The vulva or vagina.
    • 1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug:
      ‘Now I aint one of these twitchet-struck tomcats who's got it on his mind day in and day out, but I'm a man, goddammit, and you showed me what it's like for the first time to enjoy bein a man.’
    • 1976, Vance Randolph, Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales, page 138:
      The country boy felt of her legs, and patted her bottom, and kissed her bubbies, and then he begun to tickle her twitchet.

References[edit]

  1. ^ “twitchet”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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