twit
noun /twɪt/
/twɪt/
(especially British English, informal)- a silly or annoying person
- You look a twit in that suit.
- Ray’s a bit of a twit.
- upper-class twits
Word Origin1930s (earlier dialect, in the sense ‘malicious gossip’): perhaps from twit in the sense ‘tease someone in a good-humoured way’.