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• tw*t, tw@, tw@t (censored)

語源

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.

発音

• (英国発音, New Zealand, Australia) IPA: /twæt/, [tʰw̥æt]
• (米国発音) IPA: /twɑt/, [tʰw̥ɑt]
• (Australia) IPA: /twɔt/, [tʰw̥ɔt]
• (Canada) IPA: [t(ʰ)wat], [t(ʰ)wɔt]
• 韻: -æt
• ハイフネーション: twat

名詞

twat (plural twats)

(vulgar, slang)

1. The vagina or vulva.
   • 1996, “No Time”, in Hard Core, performed by Lil' Kim ft. Puff Daddy:

     That you wanna get with, lick up in my twat / Gotta hit the spot, if not don't test the poom-poom

   • 2016, Wheeler Walker Jr., “Sit On My Face”, in Redneck Shit (Comedy Country), Nashville, Tennessee:

     Come on back to my place / And loosen up your belt / We can order a pizza / While you finger yourself / It don't bother me none / That you smell like piss / I'm gonna lay my head back / And give your twat a kiss / Sit on my face, cause I ain't too picky / And ride my mouth till your pussy gets sticky and all

2. (offensive, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A contemptible and stupid person; an idiot.
   • 1992 June 24, Edwina Currie, Diary:

     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.

   • 2009, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), Number 1433: Sweet Distraction:

     "LARGE MOCHA TO GO, MEDIUM CHAI FOR HERE, YOU TWATS"

使用する際の注意点

• 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.

派生語

動詞

twat (third-person singular simple present twats, present participle twatting, simple past and past participle twatted)

1. (transitive, Commonwealth, 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.

派生語

参考

• twit-twat

アナグラム

• ATWT, Watt, at. wt., watt