different between twit vs tuit

English

Etymology

Originally twite, an aphetism of Middle English atwite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tw?t/, [t?w??t]
• Rhymes: -?t

Verb

twit (third-person singular simple present twits, present participle twitting, simple past and past participle twitted)

1. (transitive) To reproach, blame; to ridicule or tease.
   • 1590, Shakespeare. History of Henry VI, Part II, Act III, Scene I

     "Hath he not twit our sovereign lady here

     With ignominious words, though clerkly couch'd,

     As if she had suborned some to swear

     False allegations to o'erthrow his state? " -

   • 1836, Joanna Baillie, Romiero, Act 3, p.55.

     "Nay, do not twit me now with all the freaks,
     And levities, and gambols charged upon me
     By every lean-faced dame that wears a hood."

   • 1955, Rex Stout, "When a Man Murders...", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 106:

     Mr. Cramer, a policeman, came this morning and twitted me for having let a murderer hoodwink me.

   • 2007, Bernard Porter, "Did He Puff his Crimes to Please a Bloodthirsty Readership?", review of Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal, London Review of Books, 5 April, 29:7, p. 10

     H. R. Fox Bourne, secretary of the Aborigines' Protection Society – often twitted for being an ‘armchair critic’ – wrote in a review of one of Stanley's books […]

   • a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Folly of Scoffing at Religion

     This […] these scoffers twitted the Christian with.
2. (transitive, computing) To ignore or killfile (a user on a bulletin board system).
   • 1995, "Michelle Jackson", Debutante/Question about Tori Shirts (on newsgroup rec.music.tori-amos)

     However, on the Internet BBS's such as Quartz (now dead), Prism, Monsoon, Sunset, ect^[sic], someone pulling that kind of crap is likely to get flamed quite fast and twitted before he/she can breathe.

   • 2002, "Chris Hoppman", FidoNet Feed Needed (on newsgroup alt.bbs)

     And no, there is no "thought purification program" that can filter out some folks^[sic] obscene ideas that can be expressed w/o written vulgarities. That has to be simply "dealt" with, either by ignoring or twitting the individual that offends habitually.

Translations

Noun

twit (plural twits)

1. A reproach, gibe or taunt.
2. A foolish or annoying person.
   • 1988, Larry Kramer, Just Say No

     What do you mean, since when did I become such a radical fairy? Since I started knowing twits like you, you twit!

3. A euphemism for "twat", a contemptible or stupid person.
   • 2009, David Cameron

     "Too many twits make a twat." He was subsequently pilloried for not knowing that "twat" is actually very rude, and for not realising that one is a euphemism for the other.

     https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/jul/29/david-cameron-apology-radio-twitter

4. A person who twitters, i.e. chatters inanely (see usage notes).

Usage notes

In the UK, the word "twit" for a person is usually used in a humorous or affectionate manner.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:fool

Derived terms

• twitling

Translations

Anagrams

• Witt

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /twit/

Noun

twit m (plural twits)

1. (Quebec, colloquial) twit (foolish person)
2. a tweet (a message on Twitter)

Synonyms

• (Twitter): tweet

Related terms

• (Twitter): twitter

Spanish

Noun

twit m (plural twits)

1. tweet (message on Twitter)

English

Etymology

A pun on get around to it, reanalyzing it as get a round tuit.

Noun

tuit (plural tuits)

1. (humorous) Synonym of round tuit
   • 1996 October 6, Colin Douthwaite <[email protected]>, "Tuit", message-ID <[email protected]>, rec.humor, Usenet [1]:

     THIS IS A TUIT

   • 2000 December 7, Joe Zeff <[email protected]>, "Tuit Update", message-ID <[email protected]>, alt.sysadmin.recovery, Usenet [2]:

     My tuit is back from the shop, in a properly round state.

   • 2002 Mat 25, Scott W. Harvey <[email protected]>, "1953 BEITMAN MANUAL NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD", message-ID <[email protected]>, rec.antiques.radio+phono, Usenet [3]:

     1926-38 and 1939 manuals will be re-posted when my TUIT is round enough.

Anagrams

• ITU-T

Catalan

Etymology

Spanish tuit

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?tujt/

Noun

tuit m (plural tuits)

1. (Internet) tweet (post on Twitter)

   Synonym: piulada

Derived terms

• tuitejar

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tœy?t/
• Hyphenation: tuit
• Rhymes: -œy?t

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch tute. Cognate with German Tüte (“bag”). Further origin unknown.

Noun

tuit n (plural tuiten, diminutive tuitje n)

1. a spout
2. (obsolete) lock of hair

Derived terms

• schenktuit

Descendants

• Afrikaans: tuit

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

tuit

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of tuiten
2. imperative of tuiten

Finnish

Verb

tuit

1. Second-person singular indicative past form of tukea.

Anagrams

• tiut, tuti

Irish

Noun

tuit f (genitive singular tuite, nominative plural tuiteanna)

1. Alternative form of toit (“smoke”)

Declension

Verb

tuit (present analytic tuiteann, future analytic tuitfidh, verbal noun tuitim, past participle tuite)

1. Alternative form of tit (“fall”)

Conjugation

Mutation

References

• "tuit" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Old French

Adjective

tuit m

1. nominative singular of tot (“all”)

Adverb

tuit

1. nominative singular of tot (“all; completely”)

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tut?/

Verb

·tuit

1. third-person singular present indicative prototonic of do·tuit

tuit

1. second-person singular present imperative of do·tuit

Mutation

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• tot, tuih

Adjective

tuit

1. all; every

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish do·tuit (“falls”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t?u?t?], /t??u?t??/

Verb

tuit (past thuit, future tuitidh, verbal noun tuiteam, past participle tuite)

1. fall
2. happen, befall, chance
3. stumble, slip
4. subside
5. sink
6. set (as the sun)
7. benight
8. be seduced by
9. fail
10. damp

Mutation

References

• “tuit” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 do-tuit”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Spanish

Etymology

Created by the Fundación del Español Urgente in order to have a more Hispanic word rather than adopting "tweet" from English. Added to the dictionary of the Real Academia Española in 2015.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?twit/, [?t?wit?]

Noun

tuit m (plural tuits)

1. (computing) tweet (post on Twitter)

Related terms

Further reading

• “tuit” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.