My wife often uses the word
Apparently it dates back to the 1600s in Blighty and derives from old British English and Irish English words meaning ‘cut’ [thwāt] and ‘narrow passage’ [twitchel]
I understand that its usage and level of insult may vary within the UK and apparently across the Pond (and possibly elsewhere)
Do you ever use the word?
Views?
.
Twat
-
Charlie O.
- Posts: 45297
- Joined: 21 Jul 2003, 19:53
- Location: In-A-Badda-La-Wadda, bay-beh
Re: Twat
The word exists in American English, but I don't think I've heard anyone here use it since I was a kid, and pretty rarely back then. And I can't remember ever hearing it here as an insult.
-
Santa C
- Robust
- Posts: 84016
- Joined: 22 Jul 2003, 19:06
Re: Twat
Tom Waits For No One wrote:
Yes, I was thinking about that
I saw him live once, many moons ago, and he performed that
What a twat…
.
LMG wrote:If more of the trickier/complex jazzers in the sixties had made records this lush and inviting, the more inventive side of jazz might have caught on.
Kenny G may never have happened.
-
souphound
- World Class Ignoramus
- Posts: 28111
- Joined: 27 Oct 2003, 19:49
- Location: Tralfamadore, with Montana Wildhack
Re: Twat
I've heard "don't be a twat" and/or "don't be such a twat", but not for quite a while now. I work in an industry pretty much dominated (or was historically) by Brits, so, not all that surprising.
But what on earth is a "twat waffle"?
But what on earth is a "twat waffle"?
Footy wrote:Last week, I discovered that the cordless drill I bought about 5 years ago is, in fact, a cordless screwdiver.
-
Santa C
- Robust
- Posts: 84016
- Joined: 22 Jul 2003, 19:06
Re: Twat
souphound wrote:I've heard "don't be a twat" and/or "don't be such a twat", but not for quite a while now. I work in an industry pretty much dominated (or was historically) by Brits, so, not all that surprising.
But what on earth is a "twat waffle"?
If somebody ‘waffles on’ they are talking incessantly often talking rubbish or ‘talking crap’ or ‘being a right bullshitter’
The are a waffler
Twatwaffle is talked by a twatwaffler - talking rubbish, talking bullshit, talking crap
.
.
LMG wrote:If more of the trickier/complex jazzers in the sixties had made records this lush and inviting, the more inventive side of jazz might have caught on.
Kenny G may never have happened.
-
Santa C
- Robust
- Posts: 84016
- Joined: 22 Jul 2003, 19:06
Re: Twat
‘Twatting around’ - acting in a stupid foolish way often when ‘twatted’ - drunk, pissed, two sheets to the wind, bladdered etc…
‘Stop waffling on you twat!’
.
‘Stop waffling on you twat!’
.
LMG wrote:If more of the trickier/complex jazzers in the sixties had made records this lush and inviting, the more inventive side of jazz might have caught on.
Kenny G may never have happened.
-
souphound
- World Class Ignoramus
- Posts: 28111
- Joined: 27 Oct 2003, 19:49
- Location: Tralfamadore, with Montana Wildhack
Re: Twat
Thanks. Makes sense.
Isn't it also possible to want to twat someone upside the head? I seem to remember that one (as spoken by my ex-wife ). Maybe I'm remembering wrong. That could have been to smack someone upside the head. Not sure anymore.
Isn't it also possible to want to twat someone upside the head? I seem to remember that one (as spoken by my ex-wife
). Maybe I'm remembering wrong. That could have been to smack someone upside the head. Not sure anymore.Footy wrote:Last week, I discovered that the cordless drill I bought about 5 years ago is, in fact, a cordless screwdiver.
-
BARON CORNY DOG
- Diamond Geezer
- Posts: 45186
- Joined: 18 Jul 2003, 05:38
- Location: Impregnable Citadel of Technicality
Re: Twat
My wife says I can’t pronounce it right
So I won’t.
So I won’t.
take5_d_shorterer wrote:If John Bonham simply didn't listen to enough Tommy Johnson or Blind Willie Mctell, that's his doing.
-
Charlie O.
- Posts: 45297
- Joined: 21 Jul 2003, 19:53
- Location: In-A-Badda-La-Wadda, bay-beh
Re: Twat
BARON CORNY DOG wrote:My wife says I can’t pronounce it right
So I won’t.
With an "ah" vowel sound, right? That's the only way I heard it, growing up.
Kinda backwards from the way Brit/Yank "a" pronunciation differences usually go, eh what?
-
Santa C
- Robust
- Posts: 84016
- Joined: 22 Jul 2003, 19:06
Re: Twat
BARON CORNY DOG wrote:My wife says I can’t pronounce it right
So I won’t.
Yes, I understand you Yanks say ‘twot’
But what does one expect of a nation that can’t spell colour or centre…..?
LMG wrote:If more of the trickier/complex jazzers in the sixties had made records this lush and inviting, the more inventive side of jazz might have caught on.
Kenny G may never have happened.
-
Santa C
- Robust
- Posts: 84016
- Joined: 22 Jul 2003, 19:06
Re: Twat
souphound wrote:Isn't it also possible to want to twat someone upside the head? I seem to remember that one (as spoken by my ex-wife
I don't think so.
Perhaps that's the reason why she's your ex-wife....
.
LMG wrote:If more of the trickier/complex jazzers in the sixties had made records this lush and inviting, the more inventive side of jazz might have caught on.
Kenny G may never have happened.
-
Santa C
- Robust
- Posts: 84016
- Joined: 22 Jul 2003, 19:06
Re: Twat
BARON CORNY DOG wrote:My wife says I can’t pronounce it right
Incidentally lad, I'm sure your wife has to tell you what a googly is
Whatever next
LMG wrote:If more of the trickier/complex jazzers in the sixties had made records this lush and inviting, the more inventive side of jazz might have caught on.
Kenny G may never have happened.
-
Tom Waits For No One
- Posts: 7152
- Joined: 14 Nov 2014, 08:05
Re: Twat
C wrote:souphound wrote:Isn't it also possible to want to twat someone upside the head? I seem to remember that one (as spoken by my ex-wife
I don't think so.
Perhaps that's the reason why she's your ex-wife....
.
It can be used that way.
“I’ll twat them for doing that”
“They’re going to get twatted for doing that”
Give a shit or be a shit.
-
Santa C
- Robust
- Posts: 84016
- Joined: 22 Jul 2003, 19:06
Re: Twat
Tom Waits For No One wrote:C wrote:souphound wrote:Isn't it also possible to want to twat someone upside the head? I seem to remember that one (as spoken by my ex-wife
I don't think so.
Perhaps that's the reason why she's your ex-wife....
.
It can be used that way.
“I’ll twat them for doing that”
“They’re going to get twatted for doing that”
True, I was winding the lad up
.
LMG wrote:If more of the trickier/complex jazzers in the sixties had made records this lush and inviting, the more inventive side of jazz might have caught on.
Kenny G may never have happened.
-
BARON CORNY DOG
- Diamond Geezer
- Posts: 45186
- Joined: 18 Jul 2003, 05:38
- Location: Impregnable Citadel of Technicality
Re: Twat
Charlie O. wrote:BARON CORNY DOG wrote:My wife says I can’t pronounce it right
So I won’t.
With an "ah" vowel sound, right? That's the only way I heard it, growing up.
Kinda backwards from the way Brit/Yank "a" pronunciation differences usually go, eh what?
It’s weirdly somewhere in between the two extremes. I can’t seem to manage it. Oh well.
take5_d_shorterer wrote:If John Bonham simply didn't listen to enough Tommy Johnson or Blind Willie Mctell, that's his doing.
-
Rorschach
- Posts: 4449
- Joined: 02 Jun 2008, 12:43
- Location: The north side of my town faces east, and the east faces south
Re: Twat
Tom Waits For No One wrote:C wrote:souphound wrote:Isn't it also possible to want to twat someone upside the head? I seem to remember that one (as spoken by my ex-wife
I don't think so.
Perhaps that's the reason why she's your ex-wife....
.
It can be used that way.
“I’ll twat them for doing that”
“They’re going to get twatted for doing that”
Totally!
'Twatted' can also mean drunk.
I'll punch you, you drunken idiot!
or
I'll twat you you twatted twat!
Bugger off.