twit

Plural: twits

Noun

someone who is regarded as contemptible
aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing
A jibe, reproach, or taunt, especially one made in a good-natured or teasing manner.
An annoying or foolish person.
A person who chatters or gossips inanely; a chatterer, a gossip or gossiper; also, a person who divulges private information about others or is indiscreet; a tattletale.
A short, high-pitched call of a small bird, or a similar sound made by something else; a cheep, a chirp, a tweet.
Chiefly in the form in a twit: clipping of twitter (“a state of excitement or nervousness”).
Clipping of twitter (“a knot or other defect in a thread or yarn which hinders spinning or weaving”).

Verb

Verb Forms: twitted, twitting, twits

To ridicule or taunt someone lightly.
harass with persistent criticism or carping
To blame or reproach (someone), especially in a good-natured or teasing manner; also, to ridicule or tease (someone).
To criticize or disapprove of (something), especially in a good-natured or teasing manner.
To ignore or kill file (a user on a bulletin board system).
Followed by it: to speak or write (something) in a taunting or teasing manner.
To blame or reproach, especially in a good-natured or teasing manner.
To be indiscreet; to gossip.

Intj

Used to represent the short, high-pitched call of a small bird, or a similar sound made by something else: cheep, tweet.

Examples

He couldn’t help but TWIT his opponent after playing a particularly clever word.

Origin / Etymology

PIE word
*h₂éd
The verb is an aphetic form of atwite (“(obsolete) to blame, reproach”), from Middle English atwiten (“to attribute (something) to someone; to blame (something) on someone; to accuse or charge (someone) with something; to speak ill of; to taunt”), from Old English ætwītan (“to blame, reproach; to censure, upbraid; to taunt”), from æt- (prefix meaning ‘at, near; toward’) + wītan (“to accuse; to blame, reproach”) (from Proto-Germanic *wītaną (“to punish; to torment; to know; to see”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see”)).
The noun is probably derived from the verb, although it is attested in print earlier.

Synonyms

bait, cod, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, taunting, tease, twerp, twirp, Charlie, Homer Simpson, alcatote, arsehole, asshat, asshole, badger, bam, barrack, bayard, berk, birdbrain, blab, blabbermouth, blabtale, blabtongue, blame, blither, bobchin, bonehead, bozo, brickhead, brock, buffoon, bullyrag, busybody, buzzer, carrytale, censure, chiack, chowderhead, chucklehead, chump, clart, clown, der-brain, deride, dill pickle, dim bulb, dingleberry, dipshit, dipstick, dirtbrain, div, divvo, divvy, dolt, donk, doodle, doofus, dope, dork, dote, dotterel, dullard, dumb fuck, dumbass, dumbbell, dummy, dunce, dunderhead, dupe, fathead, fault, fenderhead, fiddle, fleer, fligger, flite, fuckwit, fuzznut, geck, gig, gink, goober, gooseberry, gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, gowk, gubbins, gump, ha'p'orth, heckle, hound, ignoramus, imbecile, jamoke, jeer, jerk, jerkoff, jolterhead, jolthead, juggins, jughead, knucklehead, lamebrain, mameluke (US (Italian-American), maroon, meathead, meddler, mong, moron, mouth, mug, muggins, mumblenews, mushhead, newsmonger, nimrod, nincompoop, nip, nit, nitwit, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, numps, numpty, numskull, nupson, oaf, outlaugh, pillock, pinhead, plonker, poke borack, prat, put the blame on, retard, ridicule, rumormonger, rumourmonger, scandalmonger, schmo, schmuck, scoff, shit for brains, shithead, shitwit, slang), sleazemonger, snapperhead, sneer, softhead, sot, stupid, sucker, tabby, talebearer, talecarrier, tattletale, telltale, telltale tit, thickhead, titivil, tittle-tattle, tonto, tool, tosser, tosspot, town crier, twat, twit, upbraid, wally, wantwit, wazzock, whisperer, yampy

Scrabble Score: 7

twit: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
twit: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
twit: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 7

twit: valid Words With Friends Word