thwite

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English thwiten, from Old English þwītan (“to cut, cut off”), from Proto-Germanic *þwītaną (“to split”). See whittle, thwittle, and compare thwaite (“a piece of land”), doit (“small coin, small amount, bit”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /θwaɪ̯t/ Rhymes: -aɪt === Verb === thwite (third-person singular simple present thwites, present participle thwiting, simple past and past participle thwited) (obsolete, UK) To cut or clip with a knife; to whittle. === Anagrams === Hewitt, tewhit