Thesaurus / twit
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Wednesday came, and still he was well, with which his impertinent wife did much twit him in his teeth.
WITCH, WARLOCK, AND MAGICIANWILLIAM HENRY DAVENPORT ADAMSWith her free hand now she gave the string a small twit and watched the vibration run up and down the string twice.
THE JEWELS OF APTORSAMUEL R. DELANYBut look here, old fellow, you were ready enough to twit me about not being with the army.
MARCUS: THE YOUNG CENTURIONGEORGE MANVILLE FENNBesides, so very little has transpired to go by that I can't see exactly what they could either congratulate or twit about.
SOMEHOW GOODWILLIAM DE MORGANThey twit us with our debased fondness for the tub, and they do but add injury to insult when they send us soap for use therein.
ARE WE RUINED BY THE GERMANS?HAROLD COXI am still strong, and not as the suitors twit me with being.
THE ODYSSEYHOMERI was only sorry my father died before I could twit him with my triumph.
THE GREY WIG: STORIES AND NOVELETTESISRAEL ZANGWILLHe was too wise then to twit those others with their unbelief.
THE FLYING U'S LAST STANDB. M. BOWER"Ah, you need not twit me with what I said before I knew what your book was made of," said Mrs. Hartley affectionately.
NAME AND FAMEADELINE SERGEANTTwitter, twit′ėr, n. a chirp, as of a bird: a tremulous broken sound: a slight trembling of the nerves.
CHAMBERS'S TWENTIETH CENTURY DICTIONARY (PART 4 OF 4: S-Z AND SUPPLEMENTS)VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO TWIT
- affronting
- belittling
- burlesquing
- caricaturing
- cracking
- curling one's lip
- decrying
- deriding
- detracting
- disdaining
- disparaging
- dumping
- fleering
- flouting
- gibing
- girding
- giving Bronx cheer
- grinning
- holding in contempt
- holding up to ridicule
- insulting
- jeering
- jesting
- lampooning
- laughing at
- leering
- looking down on
- putting down
- quipping at
- rallying
- ranking out
- ridiculing
- satirizing
- scoffing
- scorning
- slamming
- slighting
- smiling
- sneezing at
- snickering
- sniff at
- swiping
- taunting
- travestying
- turning up one's nose
- twitting
- underrating
- affronts
- belittles
- burlesques
- caricatures
- cracks
- curls one's lip
- decries
- derides
- detracts
- disdains
- disparages
- dumps
- fleers
- flouts
- gibes
- girds
- gives Bronx cheer
- grins
- holds in contempt
- holds up to ridicule
- insults
- jeers
- jests
- lampoons
- laughs at
- leers
- looks down on
- puts down
- quips at
- rallies
- ranks out
- ridicules
- satirizes
- scoffs
- scorns
- slams
- slights
- smiles
- sneezes at
- snickers
- sniff at
- swipes
- taunts
- travesties
- turns up one's nose
- twits
- underrates
- ass
- birdbrain
- blockhead
- bonehead
- boob
- buffoon
- clod
- clodpoll
- clown
- cretin
- dimwit
- dolt
- dope
- dumb ox
- dunce
- dunderhead
- fathead
- goose
- halfwit
- idiot
- ignoramus
- imbecile
- innocent
- jackass
- jerk
- lamebrain
- lightweight
- loon
- mooncalf
- moron
- nincompoop
- ninny
- nitwit
- numskull
- oaf
- sap
- schlemiel
- simpleton
- stooge
- sucker
- tomfool
- turkey
- twerp
- twit
- victim
- ass
- birdbrain
- blockhead
- bonehead
- boob
- buffoon
- clod
- clodpoll
- clown
- cretin
- dimwit
- dolt
- dope
- dumb ox
- dunce
- dunderhead
- fathead
- goose
- half-wit
- idiot
- ignoramus
- imbecile
- innocent
- jackass
- jerk
- lamebrain
- lightweight
- loon
- mooncalf
- moron
- nincompoop
- ninny
- nitwit
- numskull
- oaf
- sap
- schlemiel
- simpleton
- softhead
- stooge
- sucker
- turkey
- twerp
- twit
- victim
- ass
- birdbrain
- blockhead
- bonehead
- boob
- buffoon
- clod
- clown
- cretin
- dimwit
- dolt
- dope
- dumb ox
- dunce
- dunderhead
- fathead
- goose
- halfwit
- idiot
- ignoramus
- imbecile
- innocent
- jackass
- jerk
- lamebrain
- mooncalf
- moron
- nerd
- nincompoop
- ninny
- nitwit
- numskull
- oaf
- sap
- schlemiel
- simpleton
- softhead
- stooge
- sucker
- tomfool
- twerp
- twit
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