twat

== English == === Alternative forms === tw*t, tw@, tw@t (censored) === Etymology === 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. === Pronunciation === (UK, New Zealand, General Australian) IPA(key): /twæt/, [tʰw̥æt] (US) IPA(key): /twɑt/, [tʰw̥ɑt] (General Australian) IPA(key): /twɔt/, [tʰw̥ɔt] (Canada) IPA(key): [t(ʰ)wat], [t(ʰ)wɔt] Rhymes: -æt Hyphenation: twat === Noun === twat (plural twats) (vulgar, slang) The vagina or vulva. (offensive, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A contemptible and stupid person, idiot. ==== Usage notes ==== 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. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === twat (third-person singular simple present twats, present participle twatting, simple past and past participle twatted) (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! ==== Derived terms ==== === See also === twit-twat === Anagrams === ATWT, Watt, at. wt., watt