twerp

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noun

Plural noun:

twerpstwirp

1.
(UK, colloquial)A fool, a twit.
Now you've broken it, you twerp!
Đồng nghĩa: twit, git
2.
(US, childish, colloquial)A small or puny person; one regarded as insignificant, contemptible.
Get out of my way, you little twerp!
Đồng nghĩa: twerk, absolute zero, assbucket, asswipe, badling, blatherskite, bugger, carrion, cipher, cockstain, crumb, custron, dandiprat, doink, dirtbag, douchebag, fellow, fritlag, fuckbucket, geek, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, gooey, hoon, lidderon, losel, loser, louse, maggot, ne'er-do-well, nobody, no-good, no-mark, nonentity, nonce, nought, nowmun, pelf, pig dog, pile of shit, pissant, punk, puny, quat, ramp, rinky-dink, roly-poly, scullion, shicer, shitheap, slubberdegullion, sparrow-fart, streak of piss, toerag, truant, twerp, wankstain, waste of space, underperson, unworthy, zero
3.
(US, childish, colloquial)A person who can be bullied playfully, or easily teased. Sometimes used as a pet-name (often for a younger sibling).

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Đồng nghĩa

twit gittwerkabsolute zeroassbucketasswipebadlingblatherskitebugger carrion ciphercockstaincrumbcustrondandipratdoinkdirtbagdouchebagfellowfritlag

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twerpishtwerpyderptwerk

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Of origin; originally British slang of the 1910s. In a letter, dated 6 October 1944, J. R. R. Tolkien mentions a contemporary of his at Oxford University T.W. Earp, calling him "the original twerp"; but no corroborating evidence for this etymology has come to light. Other suggestions include: a clipping of Antwerp; the onomatopoeic twirp (imitation of the sound of a bird);