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▪ I. twat low slang.|twɒt|
Also 8 twait, 20 twot(t.
[Of obscure origin.]
1. (See quot. 1727.)
Erroneously used (after quot. 1660) by Browning Pippa Passes iv. ii. 96 under the impression that it denoted some part of a nun's attire.
1656R. Fletcher tr. Martial ii. xliv. 104. 1660 Vanity of Vanities 50 They talk't of his having a Cardinalls Hat, They'd send him as soon an Old Nuns Twat. a1704T. Brown Sober Slip in Dark Wks. 1711 IV. 182 A dang'rous Street, Where Stones and Twaits in frosty Winters meet. 1719D'Urfey Pills III. 307. 1727 Bailey vol. II, Twat, pudendum muliebre. Twat-scowerer, a Surgeon or Doctor. E. Ward. 1919E. E. Cummings Let. 18 Aug. (1969) 61 On Tuesday an Uhlan To her twat put his tool in. 1934H. Miller Tropic of Cancer 55 A man with something between his legs that could..make her grab that bushy twat of hers with both hands and rub it joyfully. 1959N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 101 The clothes off, the guards are driving them into the other room, and smack their hands on skinny flesh and bony flesh, it's bag a tittie and snatch a twot. 1970G. Greer Female Eunuch 39 No woman wants to find out that she has a twat like a horse-collar. 1973P. White Eye of Storm iii. 137 This young thing with the swinging hair and partially revealed twat.
2. A term of vulgar abuse. Cf. twit n.1 2 b and cunt 2.
1929F. Manning Middle Parts of Fortune II. xv. 383 Yes, they let a bloody twat like 'im off. 1933M. Lowry Ultramarine i. 16 He can't help it if you're just a bloody, senseless twat. 1958H. Williamson Love & Loveless i. 27 Looked a proper twott to me. 1969P. Roth Portnoy's Complaint 211 Here comes another dumb and stupid remark out of that brainless twat. 1978J. Updike Coup (1979) iii. 123 Divorce me and you'll have a slot for this new twat, what's her name. 1979R. Fiennes Hell on Ice ix. 134 Sterns not prows, you twot.
3. U.S. dial. The buttocks.
1950Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xiii. 20 Twat,..the buttocks. 1964M. Kelly March to Gallows xii. 132, I could tell her what to do with her twat if she's frightened to sit on it.
▪ II. † twat
an error for troat v.
1686R. Blome Gentl. Recr. ii. 76 A Hart Belloweth, a Buck Groaneth or Twateth. |