But in one segment, Ray gets her seasonings mixed up (twice), giving critics all the more reason to call her a twit.
The twit, Guy Clinch, is the unlucky father of Marmaduke, an 18-month-old prodigy of domestic mayhem.
To Steele, surely, goes the prize of Republican twit of the Week.
From that evening, in fact, they watched for every opportunity to twit her about her hopeless dream.
If you are afraid, we will both back out, and then neither can twit the other.
The profession of a gentleman at large, with which you twit me, I hereby renounce.
They twit me in the teeth, because I cannot say who my father and mother were.
Do you know, Tishy dear, I was just going to twit you with the negro and his spots.
In that case I give you leave to twit 'em as hard as you like.
He did give us the house, but it ain't for you to twit me of that.
1520s, shortened form of atwite, from Old English ætwitan "to blame, reproach," from æt "at" + witan "to blame," from Proto-Germanic *witanan (cf. Old English wite, Old Saxon witi, Old Norse viti "punishment, torture;" Old High German wizzi "punishment," wizan "to punish;" Dutch verwijten, Old High German firwizan, German verweisen "to reproach, reprove," Gothic fraweitan "to avenge"), from PIE root *weid- "to see" (see vision). For sense evolution, cf. Latin animadvertere, literally "to give heed to, observe," later "to chastise, censure, punish."
noun
A contemptible and insignificant person; a trivial idiot: Craig Stevens as her twit of a husband/ I've got the authorization, you fucking twit
[1934+; origin unknown; rapidly adopted in the 1970s, perhaps because of the popularity of the British television series Monty Python's Flying Circus, on which the term was often employed]
