twat; n.

[Guest]

I sent this to my favourite twat (m.), then decided to share with others (not necessarily twats; well, you know who you are). I love some of the old examples, and especially the erroneous one. I also like other spellings, e.g., twait, twott. And wouldn't you know the Americans would get it arse-backwards. (my emphases).

ta, Perdita

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twat - SECOND EDITION, 1989, low slang.

1. (See quot. 1727.)
Erroneously used (after quot. 1660) by Browning Pippa Passes IV. ii. 96 under the impression that it denoted some part of a nun's attire.

1656 R. FLETCHER tr. Martial II. xliv. 104. 1660 Vanity of Vanities 50 They talk't of his having a Cardinalls Hat, They'd send him as soon an Old Nuns Twat. a1704 T. BROWN Sober Slip in Dark Wks. 1711 IV. 182 A dang'rous Street, Where Stones and Twaits in frosty Winters meet. 1719 D'URFEY Pills III. 307. 1727 BAILEY vol. II, Twat, pudendum muliebre. Twat-scowerer, a Surgeon or Doctor. E. Ward. 1919 E. E. CUMMINGS Let. 18 Aug. (1969) 61 On Tuesday an Uhlan To her twat put his tool in. 1934 H. MILLER Tropic of Cancer 55 A man with something between his legs that could..make her grab that bushy twat of hers with both hands and rub it joyfully. 1959 N. MAILER Advts. for Myself (1961) 101 The clothes off, the guards are driving them into the other room, and smack their hands on skinny flesh and bony flesh, it's bag a tittie and snatch a twot. 1970 G. GREER Female Eunuch 39 No woman wants to find out that she has a twat like a horse-collar. 1973 P. WHITE Eye of Storm iii. 137 This young thing with the swinging hair and partially revealed twat.

2. A term of vulgar abuse. Cf. TWIT n.1 2b and CUNT 2.

1929 F. MANNING Middle Parts of Fortune II. xv. 383 Yes, they let a bloody twat like 'im off. 1933 M. LOWRY Ultramarine i. 16 He can't help it if you're just a bloody, senseless twat. 1958 H. WILLIAMSON Love & Loveless i. 27 Looked a proper twott to me. 1969 P. ROTH Portnoy's Complaint 211 Here comes another dumb and stupid remark out of that brainless twat. 1978 J. UPDIKE Coup (1979) iii. 123 Divorce me and you'll have a slot for this new twat, what's her name. 1979 R. FIENNES Hell on Ice ix. 134 Sterns not prows, you twot.

3. U.S. dial. The buttocks.

1950 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. XIII. 20 Twat,..the buttocks. 1964 M. KELLY March to Gallows xii. 132, I could tell her what to do with her twat if she's frightened to sit on it.

Entry printed from Oxford English Dictionary Online © Oxford University Press 2004

 

[oggbashan]

3. U.S. dial. The buttocks.

1950 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. XIII. 20 Twat,..the buttocks. 1964 M. KELLY March to Gallows xii. 132, I could tell her what to do with her twat if she's frightened to sit on it.[/size]

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Some US Citizen had to get the language back to front. I wonder if he ran for President?

Og

 

[Weird Harold]

Re: Re: twat; n.

Some US Citizen had to get the language back to front. I wonder if he ran for President?

Og

It's just revenge for the brits getting "Fanny" back to front.

 

[PAUL C]

Fanny

I use the term fanny a lot.

I was told by an American once that it made my stories more erotic as he thought I was describing what was happening to her arse. I once included it in a glossary of terms at the beginning of a story.

Fanny = Pussy = vagina.
Arse = Ass.

In England.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

No woman wants to find out that she has a twat like a horse-collar.

Do I dare to ask what this means?

 

[Weird Harold]

Do I dare to ask what this means?

I thik this picture will give you the idea:

 

[Svenskaflicka]

*shudders*

 

[fifty5]

... And wouldn't you know the Americans would get it arse-backwards.

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3. U.S. dial. The buttocks.

1950 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. XIII. 20 Twat,..the buttocks. 1964 M. KELLY March to Gallows xii. 132, I could tell her what to do with her twat if she's frightened to sit on it.

Hi Perdy,

Do you think there's any chance that it was the OED editor misreading, rather than that the Americans got it wrong? After all, "Doesn't she know she's sitting on a fortune" isn't refering to the sale or hire of buttocks!

Or do our US friends really use "twat" that way?

f5

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: twat; n.

Do you think there's any chance that it was the OED editor misreading, rather than that the Americans got it wrong? After all, "Doesn't she know she's sitting on a fortune" isn't refering to the sale or hire of buttocks!

Excuse me, but I don't know to what you're referring in your quote. I reread my post above but I'm also bleary-eyed at this time of day.

I learned the word from a Brit, had not heard it before last summer.

Perdita

 

[A7inchPhildo]

I thik this picture will give you the idea:

Ok this is gross but I think I found your horse WH!

 

[fifty5]

Re: Re: Re: twat; n.

Excuse me, but I don't know to what you're referring in your quote. I reread my post above but I'm also bleary-eyed at this time of day.

I learned the word from a Brit, had not heard it before last summer.

Perdita

Sorry, perdita, I should have been more specific. It's just that to me (a Brit), "I could tell her what to do with her twat if she's frightened to sit on it." make more sense if "twat" means "cunt" than if it means "buttocks". I simply wondered if the editor who wrote that part of this entry might have been too straight-laced to register what seems to me to be a graphic way to say "I could fuck that!" (or some such - without seeing the surrounding context, it's hard to be sure). If the guy didn't actually know what he was reading, then the obvious part of the body to sit on _is_ the backside.

I've heard meaning 1 (cunt) and 2 (term of abuse) often enough, but I can't remember having heard twat used for buttocks.

NB I'm not questioning the reliability of the OED in general (I'm stupid, but not that stupid), but after the first edition or so, I understand that it was compiled by team work, so it becomes believable that this item could have been done by the wrong member of the team...

f5

 

[Guest]

f5, I get it now. It would not be that rare for errors in the OED. I sent them a correction once to do with the word "homie". I do wish they had more examples for the American usage, the one above does not seem especially common.

Perdita

 

[minsue]

Re: Re: Re: twat; n.

Excuse me, but I don't know to what you're referring in your quote. I reread my post above but I'm also bleary-eyed at this time of day.

I learned the word from a Brit, had not heard it before last summer.

Perdita

Really?? I've heard the word all my life and, no, never in reference to one's ass.