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twinter
English
Etymology
twi- +? winter
Noun
twinter (plural twinters)
- (Britain, dialect, obsolete) An animal two winters old.
Related terms
- thrinter
Anagrams
- wren-tit, wrentit, written
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twister
English
Etymology
From Middle English twyster, equivalent to twist +? -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?tw?st?(?)/
- Rhymes: -?st?(r)
Noun
twister (plural twisters)
- One who twists.
- One whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving.
- The instrument used in twisting, or making twists.
- 1653, John Wallis, Grammatica Linguæ Anglicanæ
- He, twirling his twister, makes a twist of the twine.
- 1653, John Wallis, Grammatica Linguæ Anglicanæ
- A ball delivered with a twist, as in cricket or billiards.
- (colloquial) A tornado.
- (carpentry) A girder
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Craig to this entry?)
- (dated) The inner part of the thigh, the proper place to rest upon when on horseback.
- (Britain, colloquial) A crook, a villain.
- The party game Twister, usually capitalized, or a variant.
Translations
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:twister.
Derived terms
- titty twister
- tongue-twister
See also
- dust devil
- water spout
- willy-willy
Anagrams
- Witters, retwist, witters, writest
French
Etymology
From twist +? -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /twis.te/
Verb
twister
- (dance) to dance the twist, to twist
Conjugation
Further reading
- “twister” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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