Usually means: Person displaying foolishness or stupidity.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word twit:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. twit: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. twit: Merriam-Webster
  3. twit, twit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. twit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. twit: Collins English Dictionary
  6. twit: Vocabulary.com
  7. Twit, twit: Wordnik
  8. twit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. twit: Wiktionary
  10. twit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. twit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. twit: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. twit: Dictionary.com
  14. twit (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. twit: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Twit (song), Twit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Twit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. twit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. twit: Rhymezone
  20. Twit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. twit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. twit: FreeDictionary.org
  23. twit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. twit: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. twit: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. twit: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. TWIT: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. twit: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. twit, twit: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. twit: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. T.W.I.T: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To blame or reproach (someone), especially in a good-natured or teasing manner; also, to ridicule or tease (someone).
verb:  (archaic) To criticize or disapprove of (something), especially in a good-natured or teasing manner.
verb:  (computing) To ignore or kill file (a user on a bulletin board system).
verb:  (obsolete) Followed by it: to speak or write (something) in a taunting or teasing manner.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To blame or reproach, especially in a good-natured or teasing manner.
verb:  (obsolete except British, dialectal) To be indiscreet; to gossip.
noun:  A jibe, reproach, or taunt, especially one made in a good-natured or teasing manner.
noun:  (informal) An annoying or foolish person.
noun:  (British, Ireland, dialectal, archaic) 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.
noun:  A short, high-pitched call of a small bird, or a similar sound made by something else; a cheep, a chirp, a tweet.
noun:  (chiefly US, informal) Chiefly in the form in a twit: clipping of twitter (“a state of excitement or nervousness”).
noun:  (Northern England, Scotland, weaving, archaic) Clipping of twitter (“a knot or other defect in a thread or yarn which hinders spinning or weaving”). [(uncountable) The sound of a succession of chirps as uttered by birds.]

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