twit

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To blame or reproach (someone), especially in a good-natured or teasing manner; also, to ridicule or tease (someone).

   “No man for deſpite, / By worde or by write / His felowe to twite, […]”

2. fiil To criticize or disapprove of (something), especially in a good-natured or teasing manner.

   “But in the Lovver Houſe ſome there vvere vvhich handled theſe things more tumultuouſly, namely, Bell and Monſon, great Lavvyers, Dutton, Paul VVentvvorth, and others, vvhich tvvitted the Authority of the Queen's Majeſty too much, […]”

3. fiil To ignore or kill file (a user on a bulletin board system).

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

4. fiil Followed by it: to speak or write (something) in a taunting or teasing manner.
5. fiil To blame or reproach, especially in a good-natured or teasing manner.

   “Secrecy about B.R. plans for reorganisation and closure of lines and notably some failures to consult with staff representatives concerned with redundancy, are defects with which the railway unions have twitted Dr. Beeching.”

6. fiil To be indiscreet; to gossip.
7. isim A jibe, reproach, or taunt, especially one made in a good-natured or teasing manner.

   “Wid[ow]. Novv I have receiv'd you into my Family, / I hope you vvill let my maids go quietly about / Their buſineſs, Sir. / S[ir] Fred[erick Frollick]. Upon condition there be no tvvits of the good man / Departed; no preſcription pleaded for evil cuſtoms / On the VVedding night.”

8. isim An annoying or foolish person.

   “What do you mean, since when did I become such a radical fairy! […] Since I started knowing twits like you, you twit!”

9. isim A person who chatters or gossips inanely; a chatterer, a gossip or gossiper; also, a person who divulges private information about others or is indiscreet; a tattletale.
10. ünlem Used to represent the short, high-pitched call of a small bird, or a similar sound made by something else: cheep, tweet.

    “Midnights bell goes ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, / Then dogs doe hovvle, and not a bird does ſing: / But the Nightingale, and ſhe cries tvvit, tvvit, tvvit, tvvit, / Ovvles then on euerie bovve doe ſit.”

11. isim A short, high-pitched call of a small bird, or a similar sound made by something else; a cheep, a chirp, a tweet.

    “The minutes seem'd hours—with impatience she heard / The flap of a leaf, and the twit of a bird; […]”

12. isim Chiefly in the form in a twit: clipping of twitter (“a state of excitement or nervousness”).
13. isim Clipping of twitter (“a knot or other defect in a thread or yarn which hinders spinning or weaving”).

    “[I]s't a cursed wab o' yarn / That winna work, for knots and twits, / Spun by some thoughtless drabby sluts, / Whase minds on naething else is carried, / But thinking when they will be married; […]”