Twat
noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 The vagina or vulva. slang, vulgar
"That you wanna get with, lick up in my twat / Gotta hit the spot, if not don't test the poom-poom"
- 2 obscene terms for female genitals wordnet
- 3 A contemptible and stupid person, idiot. Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, offensive, slang, vulgar
"At 4pm, the phone went. It was The Sun: 'We hear your daughter's been expelled for cheating at her school exams...' She'd made a remark to a friend at the end of the German exam and had been pulled up for talking. As they left the exam room, she muttered that the teacher was a 'twat'. He heard and flipped—a pretty stupid thing to do, knowing the kids were tired and tense after exams. Instead of dropping it, the teacher complained to the Head and Deb was carpeted."
- 4 a man who is a stupid incompetent fool wordnet
- 1 To hit, slap. Commonwealth, slang, transitive, vulgar
"Arnold Rimmer: What are we gonna do? Dave Lister: Well, I say let's get out there and twat it!"
Example
More examples"He's a twat. I can't listen to his nonsense anymore."
Etymology
Unknown origin. Possibly cognate with Old Norse þveit (“cut, slit, forest clearing”), and if so a doublet of thwaite. May however simply be onomatopoeic or sound-symbolic.
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