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twerp slang.|twɜːp|
Also twirp.
[Of uncertain origin. See quots. 1944, 1957; T. W. Earp of Exeter College, Oxford, matriculated in Michaelmas Term, 1911.]
A despicable or objectionable person; an insignificant person, a nobody; a nincompoop.
1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 292 Twerp, an unpleasant person. 1934J. O'Hara Appointment in Samarra iv. 87 ‘And what a husband.’ ‘Exactly!.. That little twirp.’ 1936Wodehouse Laughing Gas xxv. 265 You're simply a lot of low twerps who kidnapped me in order to cash in. 1944J. R. R. Tolkien Let. 6 Oct. (1981) 94 He lived in O[xford] at the time when we lived in Pusey Street (rooming with Walton, the composer, and going about with T. W. Earp, the original twerp). 1945[see rat n.1 3 a]. 1955E. Pound Section: Rock-Drill xcv. 105 Among all these twerps and Pullizer sponges no voice for the Constitution, No objection to the historic blackout. 1957R. Campbell Portugal 87 T. W. Earp (who gave the English language the word twirp, really twearp, because of the Goering-like wrath he kindled in the hearts of the rugger-playing stalwarts at Oxford, when he was president of the Union, by being the last, most charming, and wittiest of the ‘decadents’). 1960S. Barstow Kind of Loving i. iv. 91 If she turns me down I'll look more of a twerp than ever. 1973B. Broadfoot Ten Lost Years xxvii. 309 The R. B. Bennetts of Canada and that despicable little twerp Mac. 1980National Times (Austral.) 21 Dec. 30/3 Kendig's former boss..is a twerp. His offices contain a gallery of framed photographs of [himself]: there he is with John Wayne, with Nixon, [etc.]. |