twat

English

Etymology

Unknown origin. Possibly cognate with Old Norse þveit (“cut, slit, forest clearing”).

Pronunciation

(UK, New Zealand, General Australian) IPA^(key): /twæt/, [tʰw̥æt]
(US, General Australian) IPA^(key): /twɑt/, [tʰw̥ɑt]
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Rhymes: -æt

Noun

twat (plural twats)

(vulgar, slang) The vagina or vulva.
(offensive, vulgar, slang, chiefly UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) A contemptible and stupid person, idiot.
- 1992 June 24, Edwina Currie, Diary:
  At 4pm, the phone went. It was The Sun: 'We hear your daughter's been expelled for cheating at her school exams...'
  
  She'd made a remark to a friend at the end of the German exam and had been pulled up for talking.
  
  As they left the exam room, she muttered that the teacher was a 'twat'. He heard and flipped—a pretty stupid thing to do, knowing the kids were tired and tense after exams. Instead of dropping it, the teacher complained to the Head and Deb was carpeted.
- 2009, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), Number 1433: Sweet Distraction:
  "LARGE MOCHA TO GO, MEDIUM CHAI FOR HERE, YOU TWATS"

Usage notes

Erroneously used by Robert Browning in Pippa Passes (1841) to denote part of a nun's habit, based on a misunderstanding of lines from a satirical poem Vanity of Vanities (1660): "They talk’t of his having a Cardinalls Hat / They’d send him as soon an Old Nuns Twat." For more, see Wikipedia.

Translations

vulgar slang, vagina

Basque: alu
Bulgarian: путка f (putka)
Catalan: cony (ca) m
Czech: píča (cs) f, kunda (cs) f
Danish: fisse (da), kusse (da)
Dutch: kut (nl) f
Esperanto: piĉo (eo)
Estonian: vitt (et), puts, tuss
Finnish: pillu (fi), tussu (fi), vittu (fi)
French: chatte (fr) f, con (fr) m
Galician: cona (gl) f, conacha f, crica (gl) f, grila (gl) f, catavís m, corrancha f, xíxara f
German: Fotze (de) f
Greek: μουνί (el) n (mouní)
Greenlandic: utsuk
Hebrew: כוס‎ (he)
Hindi: चूत (hi) f (cūt)
Hungarian: pina (hu)
Indonesian: memek (id), tempik (id), meki
Irish: pit f
Italian: figa (it) f
Japanese: まんこ (ja) (manko), おまんこ (omanko)
Javanese: tempik (jv), turuk (jv), bawuk (jv)
Khmer: កណ្ដួយ (km) (kɑnduəy)
Korean: 보지 (ko) (boji), 씹 (ko) (ssip)
Latvian: petene
Lithuanian: pyzda (lt) f
Macedonian: пичка f (pička), минџа f (mindža)
Malay: puki (ms)
Maltese: għoxx f
Northern Sami: cinˈná
Norwegian: fitte (no) f
Persian: کس‎ (fa) (kos)
Polish: piczka (pl) f, cipa (pl) f
Portuguese: buceta (pt) f
Romanian: pizdă (ro) f
Russian: манда́ (ru) f (mandá), пизда́ (ru) f (pizdá)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пичка f, пизда f
Roman: pička (sh) f, pizda (sh) f
Slovak: piča f
Slovene: pizda (sl) f
Spanish: coño (es) m, chocho (es)
Swedish: fitta (sv), mutta (sv)
Tagalog: puke
Thai: หี (th) (hǐi), หอย (th) (hɔ̌i)
Turkish: am (tr)
Udmurt: пирог (pirog)
Venetian: móna f
Vietnamese: lồn (vi)

idiot

Arabic: مُغَفَّل‎ (muḡaffal)
Finnish: ääliö (fi), typerys (fi)
French: con (fr)
Italian: coglione (it)
Japanese: 馬鹿 (ja) (ばか, baka)
Macedonian: гомнар m (gomnar)
Portuguese: idiota (pt), parvo (pt)
Romanian: idiot (ro) m, prost (ro) m, tâmpit (ro) m
Russian: балда́ (ru) m or f (baldá), идио́т (ru) m (idiót)
Spanish: gilí m or f
Swedish: idiot (sv), kötthuvud (sv) n, rövhål (sv) n
Venetian: móna m or f

Verb

twat (third-person singular simple present twats, present participle twatting, simple past and past participle twatted)

(transitive, Britain, slang) To hit, slap.
- 1989, Red Dwarf, series III, episode 3 (Polymorph)
  Arnold Rimmer: What are we gonna do?
  Dave Lister: Well, I say let's get out there and twat it!
- 2005, S. J. Smith, Joe Public
  "Umbridge'll twat him into next week."
- 2006, Martyn J. Pass, Dani Pass, Waiting for Red
  "I'd love to twat her over the head with this. What d'ya reckon?"
  "She'd certainly bleed a lot."
- 2007, Mark Button, Security Officers And Policing: Powers, Culture and Control in the Governance of Private Space:
  That's the only time I have been twatted by someone.

Anagrams

ATWT, Watt, at. wt., watt