| 单词 | twirp |
| 释义 | twirp (once / 1969886 pages) 1n 2v A twirp is a ridiculous, annoying person. You couldn't be blamed for calling your obnoxious younger brother a twirp. The more common spelling is twerp, but either way a twirp is silly and drives you crazy. It's not nice to call someone a twirp, so you should save it for emergencies: "You twirp! Why'd you put my phone in the dishwasher?" One theory of twirp's origin says it came from the name T.W. Earp, a controversial student union president at Oxford in 1911, while other experts believe the word didn't appear until the 1920s. WORD FAMILYtwirp USAGE EXAMPLES“Once when I was a young twirp shippin’ on a freighter, a hurricane struck us off the Florida Keys. Wirt, Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine), Whispering Walls(2011) 1 n someone who is regarded as contemptible 2Syn|Hyper twerp, twit simple, simpleton a person lacking intelligence or common sense v make a weak, chirping sound Syn|Hyper tweet go, sound make a certain noise or sound |
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