twit
verb (used with object)
to taunt, tease, ridicule, etc., with reference to anything embarrassing; gibe at.
twitting
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present participleof twit.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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Geez, these guys can't even keep their messaging straight - declining to speak on the record yet tapping and twitting on Twitter like there's no tomorrow.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2018
Before long, the poster boy for “Tory modernization”—and, it emerged, a passionate user of the textspeak “LOL,” which he used to mean “lots of love”—was twitting away himself.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 14, 2016
The triangle always felt like a deliberate twitting of Twilight's similar setup.
From The Verge ● Nov. 18, 2015
When he coined that phrase 60 years ago, New Yorker writer A. J. Liebling was twitting Chicagoans for their obsession with not measuring up to New York.
From Newsweek ● Feb. 27, 2011
"Quit twitting a man with his misfortunes," whined Montezuma, of the now broken-heart.
From Graham's Magazine Vol. XXXII No. 2. February 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
