Definizione monolingua

twit

twit (third-person singular simple present twits, present participle twitting, simple past and past participle twitted)

1. (transitive) To reproach, blame; to ridicule or tease.
   • 1590, Shakespeare. History of Henry VI, Part II, Act III, Scene I

     ""Hath he not twit our sovereign lady here / With ignominious words, though clerkly couchd, / As if she had suborned some to swear / False allegations to oerthrow his state? "" -

   • 1955, Rex Stout, ""When a Man Murders..."", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 106:

     Mr. Cramer, a policeman, came this morning and twitted me for having let a murderer hoodwink me.

   • 2007, Bernard Porter, ""Did He Puff his Crimes to Please a Bloodthirsty Readership?"", review of Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal, London Review of Books, 5 April, 29:7, p. 10

     H. R. Fox Bourne, secretary of the Aborigines Protection Society – often twitted for being an ‘armchair critic’ – wrote in a review of one of Stanleys books […]

2. (transitive, computing) To ignore or killfile (a user on a bulletin board system).
   • 1995, ""Michelle Jackson"", Debutante/Question about Tori Shirts (on newsgroup rec.music.tori-amos)

     However, on the Internet BBSs such as Quartz (now dead), Prism, Monsoon, Sunset, ect^[sic], someone pulling that kind of crap is likely to get flamed quite fast and twitted before he/she can breathe.

twit (plural twits)

1. A reproach, gibe or taunt.
2. A foolish or annoying person.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Larry Kramer, Just Say No

     What do you mean, since when did I become such a radical fairy? Since I started knowing twits like you, you twit!

Definizione dizionario twit

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Altri significati:

a foolish or annoying person

A reproach, gibe or taunt.

(transitive) To reproach, blame; to ridicule or tease.

A foolish or annoying person.

To reproach, blame; to ridicule or tease