twit
verb (used with object)
to taunt, tease, ridicule, etc., with reference to anything embarrassing; gibe at.
was twitting
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past progressiveof twit.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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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
On the rear platform a cheery young mechanic was twitting the conductor and occasionally making a remark to a fresh passenger.
From Toasts and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say the Right Thing in the Right Way by William Pittenger
"Miss Bean was twitting her to-day because she wasn't rich."
From Half a Dozen Girls by Anna Chapin Ray
The spectacled gentleman was Olivia’s father, and he mockingly rebuked Marian Devereux for having encouraged an infraction of parental discipline, while she was twitting him upon the loss of his wager.
From The House of a Thousand Candles by Meredith Nicholson
