Antonyms for twit

Grammar : Verb

Spell : twit

Phonetic Transcription : twɪt

Definition of twit

Origin : 1520s, shortened form of atwite, from Old English ætwitan "to blame, reproach," from æt "at" + witan "to blame," from Proto-Germanic *witanan (cf. Old English wite, Old Saxon witi, Old Norse viti "punishment, torture;" Old High German wizzi "punishment," wizan "to punish;" Dutch verwijten, Old High German firwizan, German verweisen "to reproach, reprove," Gothic fraweitan "to avenge"), from PIE root *weid- "to see" (see vision). For sense evolution, cf. Latin animadvertere, literally "to give heed to, observe," later "to chastise, censure, punish."

verb ridicule

Example sentences :

From that evening, in fact, they watched for every opportunity to twit her about her hopeless dream.
Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola

If you are afraid, we will both back out, and then neither can twit the other.
Extract from : « In School and Out » by Oliver Optic

The profession of a gentleman at large, with which you twit me, I hereby renounce.
Extract from : « The Master of the Shell » by Talbot Baines Reed

They twit me in the teeth, because I cannot say who my father and mother were.
Extract from : « Rienzi » by Edward Bulwer Lytton

Do you know, Tishy dear, I was just going to twit you with the negro and his spots.
Extract from : « Somehow Good » by William de Morgan

In that case I give you leave to twit 'em as hard as you like.
Extract from : « Mildred Keith » by Martha Finley

He did give us the house, but it ain't for you to twit me of that.
Extract from : « Gretchen » by Mary J. Holmes

The pictures on the walls will not twit you with your ignorance.
Extract from : « Travelling Sketches. » by Anthony Trollope

I supposed it was a mistake for hockey, or else some kind of a twit.
Extract from : « Kathleen » by Christopher Morley

Now I'll twit him, she thought, as they ascended the shore and entered the town.
Extract from : « Spring Days » by George Moore

Synonyms for twit

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