twerp
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Definition of twerp
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(UK, colloquial)A fool, a twit.
“Now you've broken it, you twerp!”
“There's many an airman just finishin' his time. There's many a twerp signing on.”
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noun
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(UK, colloquial)A fool, a twit.
“Now you've broken it, you twerp!”
“There's many an airman just finishin' his time. There's many a twerp signing on.”
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(US, childish, colloquial)A small or puny person; one regarded as insignificant, contemptible.
“Get out of my way, you little twerp!”
- (US, childish, colloquial)A person who can be bullied playfully, or easily teased. Sometimes used as a pet-name (often for a younger sibling).
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Etymology
Of uncertain origin; originally British slang of the 1910s. In a letter, dated 6 October 1944, J. R. R. Tolkien mentions a contemporary of his at Oxford University T.W. Earp,…
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Of uncertain origin; originally British slang of the 1910s. In a letter, dated 6 October 1944, J. R. R. Tolkien mentions a contemporary of his at Oxford University T.W. Earp, calling him "the original twerp"; but no corroborating evidence for this etymology has come to light. Other suggestions include: a clipping of Antwerp (“type of racing pigeon that flew between Antwerp and London”); the onomatopoeic twirp (“imitation of the sound of a bird”); a dialectal variant of dwarf (compare Middle English dwerf); Welsh twp (“a fool”).
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