What's the difference between twerp and twit?

Twerp


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Suzuki admitted to journalists he called Trudeau a twerp, and the Liberal leader dismissed his critique of the party’s climate policy as “sanctimonious crap”.
  • (2) Like a twerp I'd requested the tickets from former Hammer Rio Ferdinand ( @rioferdy5 ) via Twitter, a lamentable exploitation of fame that elicited a red tide of justifiable online indignation.
  • (3) Traitor was a barb he must have expected; he has also been branded a self-serving twerp (by the former head of MI5 Stella Rimington) , a naive narcissist, and perhaps strangest of all, a cross-dressing Little Red Riding Hood (in the Washington Post).
  • (4) I found those protests exciting, yes, because I was young and a bit of a twerp but also, I suppose, because there was a void in me.
  • (5) That twerp, all eyeliner and lager dithering up Chalk Farm Road under a back-combed barnet, the lips that I'd only seen clenching a fishwife fag and dribbling curses now a portal for this holy sound.
  • (6) Whether he is regarded as a whistleblower, a traitor, a self-serving twerp – as Rimington described him – or a hero, Snowden knew about encryption, and he knew how to keep things safe.

Twit


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To vex by bringing to notice, or reminding of, a fault, defect, misfortune, or the like; to revile; to reproach; to upbraid; to taunt; as, he twitted his friend of falsehood.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Yet the twits that think this stuff are inheriting the Earth.
  • (2) Hackney Council has actually done a good job of improving the environment and by and large the borough is a fairly good place to live and not nearly as overrun with snotty upper-middle class twits as other gentrified boroughs.
  • (3) Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) BREAKING NEWS: I'm now a Twit.
  • (4) Keith Field, 76, a former builder who stops to chat outside the British Heart Foundation charity shop, says he's amazed Huhne was "such a twit.
  • (5) When I first met her around Camden she was just some twit in a pink satin jacket shuffling round bars with mutual friends, most of whom were in cool indie bands or peripheral Camden figures Withnail-ing their way through life on impotent charisma.
  • (6) Two black males winning the individual categories, don't imagine that's happened before... 8.24pm: From the twits: marielalaa RT @horrorrrrr: I LOVE YOU JAY Z HAVE MY BABIES #britawards 8.29pm: Winner!
  • (7) Macmillan was transformed overnight from "Supermac" into a doddering old Edwardian twit.
  • (8) While this clown's latest assertion of his alpha-maleness, in debased imitation of Bertram Wooster's misadventures, will undoubtedly add to female consternation about a Drones Club government whose leader insults women and twits his rival for being insufficiently "macho", Mitchell's contribution to the public understanding of hegemonic masculinity also deserves a mention.
  • (9) "Inane stuff about what twits are having for breakfast.
  • (10) Photograph: Amy Watters What about lunch Cafe Twit sells jacket potatoes (from £3.20), soup (from £3.80), panini (from £3.40).
  • (11) The consensus that social media is a powerful platform for youth engagement: Trisha Tahmasbi (@Trisha_Tahmasbi) @LetGirlsLead Platforms that allow youth to communicate through photos: FB, Twit, Instagram, Tumblr & snapchat, are among favs.
  • (12) Johnson stood by his comments on Monday, describing the reaction as an “artificial media twit storm”.
  • (13) The peer calls Boris Johnson “a joke” and a “public school upper-class twit”, and describes Scottish MP Alex Salmond, the former SNP leader, as a “silly, pompous prat”.
  • (14) Or there's the irresistably named Cafe Twit at the Roald Dahl museum.
  • (15) Tedious headline cliche you can expect "Twit and Twitterer" for pictures of her and Gordon, plus a thousand variations on "Don't mention 'im indoors".
  • (16) 7.58pm: On the twits - @JamesRogers79 Sitting down to watch the Brits tonight.
  • (17) Fortunately for the well-being of ­Gogarty and Moir, virtuous fury appears to be more capricious than government exclusion orders: the moving finger tweets and, having twit, seeks out another enemy of the public good.
  • (18) 9.53pm: She didn't hashtag this, but I've still nicked it from the Twits: @gracedent robbie.
  • (19) Look and listen out for The "twit-twoo" of tawny owls.
  • (20) England had become a nation of penalty-missers, contract-outers, public-school twits and twats, bigots and Bullingdon club bullies, snarling bulldogs and rapacious bankers.A country in which even Labour leaders preached deregulation, prized unfettered wealth and puckered up to the world’s media magnates.

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