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Twitty

//ˈtwɪt.iː// adj, name, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Silly, foolish, ineffectual. slang

    "twit fool, lame person, loser | Heʼs such a twit; he always crank-calls me! [C450 1920s British: ‘trivial idiot’] → twitty having the characteristics of a twit"

  2. 2
    Nervous. Australia, slang

    "To spend a day with the Hendersons — if you’re like me — would usually end up in your becoming gradually and gently twitty. Twitty is the English vernacular for nervous or clownish."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

Etymology

From twit[face] (“a fool, an idiot”, noun) + -y (adjectival suffix). First attested in 1989 (sense 1).

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