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"etymology_text": "PIE word\n *h₂éd\nThe verb is an aphetic form of atwite (“(obsolete) to blame, reproach”), from Middle English atwiten (“to attribute (something) to someone; to blame (something) on someone; to accuse or charge (someone) with something; to speak ill of; to taunt”), from Old English ætwītan (“to blame, reproach; to censure, upbraid; to taunt”), from æt- (prefix meaning ‘at, near; toward’) + wītan (“to accuse; to blame, reproach”) (from Proto-Germanic *wītaną (“to punish; to torment; to know; to see”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see”)).\nThe noun is probably derived from the verb, although it is attested in print earlier.",
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"_dis": "2 5 1 13 2 7 7 13 3 12 12 14 8",
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{
"text": "(blame):"
},
{
"text": "(ridicule):"
},
{
"ref": "1865 September 12, John Williamson, Maurice Fitzgerald, compiler, “Separation. Adjourned Debate.”, in New Zealand. Parliamentary Debates. Third and Fourth Parliaments. […] (House of Representatives), Wellington: G. Didsbury, government printer, published 1887, →OCLC, page 499, column 2",
"text": "The honourable member for Ellesmere, on the opening of this session, got up and twitted them with not being there on the first day.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1893 October 14, “‘Masterly Inactivity’”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume CV, London: […] Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 174, column 2",
"text": "Dear France, thou thy insular neighbour oft twittest / As \"Shopkeeper!\" Well ma'am, j'y suis, and shall stop; / For a Shopkeeper's one who—of course—keeps the Shop!",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1954 May, Rex Stout, “When a Man Murders”, in The American Magazine, volume 157, New York, N.Y.: Colver Publishing House, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 128, columns 1–2; republished in Three Witnesses, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, October 1994, page 106",
"text": "Mr. Cramer, a policeman, came this morning and twitted me for having let a murderer hoodwink me.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1962 August, “Talking of Trains: Under Their Hats”, in Modern Railways, Shepperton, Surrey: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 80",
"text": "Secrecy about B.R. plans for reorganisation and closure of lines and notably some failures to consult with staff representatives concerned with redundancy, are defects with which the railway unions have twitted Dr. Beeching.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2007 April 5, Bernard Porter, “Did He Puff His Crimes to Please a Bloodthirsty Readership? Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal. Faber, 570 pp., £25, March 2007, 978 0 571 22102 8 [book review]”, in Mary-Kay Wilmers, editor, London Review of Books, volume 29, number 7, London: LRB Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-03-03, page 10",
"text": "H[enry] R[ichard] Fox Bourne, secretary of the Aborigines' Protection Society – often twitted for being an 'armchair critic' – wrote in a review of one of [Henry Morton] Stanley's books: 'The Society is not condemning Mr Stanley or his subordinates so much, but the mounting of an expedition with aims and methods which almost necessitated the cruelties and slaughters that were incident to it … It seems better to remain in armchairs and pass resolutions than wantonly to embark on perilous enterprises, which can only be carried out by means that degrade Englishmen.'",
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"To blame or reproach (someone), especially in a good-natured or teasing manner; also, to ridicule or tease (someone)."
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"reproach",
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[
"good-natured",
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"teasing",
"teasing#Adjective"
],
[
"manner",
"manner#Noun"
],
[
"ridicule",
"ridicule#Verb"
],
[
"tease",
"tease#Verb"
]
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"(transitive)",
"To blame or reproach (someone), especially in a good-natured or teasing manner; also, to ridicule or tease (someone)."
],
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"word": "censure"
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{
"word": "upbraid"
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"word": "blame"
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{
"word": "taunt"
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{
"word": "deride"
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"To criticize or disapprove of (something), especially in a good-natured or teasing manner."
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"(transitive)",
"(archaic) To criticize or disapprove of (something), especially in a good-natured or teasing manner."
],
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{
"word": "ridicule"
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1995 December 5, Michelle Jackson, “Debutante/Question about Tori Shirts”, in rec.music.tori-amos (Usenet)",
"text": "However, on the Internet BBS's such as Quartz (now dead), Prism, Monsoon, Sunset, ect, someone pulling that kind of crap is likely to get flamed quite fast and twitted before he/she can breathe.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2002 August 14, Marc Lewis, “FidoNet”, in alt.bbs (Usenet)",
"text": "Not only are some of the notoriously foul-mouthed echoes excluded from the BBS message base, but each message is auto-censored for key words that are, in the opinion of the SysOp (me in this case), offensive to a \"G\" audience. And no, it isn't 100% effective. And no, there is no \"thought purification program\" that can filter out some folks obscene ideas that can be expressed w/o written vulgarities. That has to be simply \"dealt\" with, either by ignoring or twitting the individual that offends habitually.",
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"glosses": [
"To ignore or kill file (a user on a bulletin board system)."
],
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"(transitive)",
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"Followed by it: to speak or write (something) in a taunting or teasing manner."
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"it",
"it#Pronoun"
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[
"write",
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"taunting",
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"(transitive)",
"(obsolete) Followed by it: to speak or write (something) in a taunting or teasing manner."
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"ref": "1611, Richard Sheldon, Certain General Reasons, Proving the Lawfulnesse of the Oath of Allegiance, […], London: […] Felix Kyngston [and Arnold Hatfield], for William Aspley, →OCLC, page 56",
"text": "[…] [Francis] Coster a Ieſuit againſt Luke Oſiander, vvho obiecting out of Peter Lombard thoſe vvords, (Credit oportet, It muſt be beleeued) that the bleſſed Virgins fleſh vvas conceiued in originall ſinne; and pretending by thoſe vvords, to proue a Catholike beliefe therein, Coſter thus tvvitteth and retorteth againſt him; […]",
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"To blame or reproach, especially in a good-natured or teasing manner."
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"(intransitive)",
"To blame or reproach, especially in a good-natured or teasing manner."
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"glosses": [
"To be indiscreet; to gossip."
],
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"(intransitive)",
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],
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}
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"ipa": "/twɪt/",
"tags": [
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"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[tʰw̥ɪt]",
"tags": [
"General-American",
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]
},
{
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪt"
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"_dis1": "36 13 5 9 35 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "natjakvam",
"sense": "(transitive) to blame or reproach (someone), especially in a good-natured or teasing manner; (intransitive) to blame or reproach, especially in a good-natured or teasing manner — see also blame, reproach",
"word": "натяквам"
},
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"_dis1": "36 13 5 9 35 2",
"code": "bg",
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"roman": "uprekvam",
"sense": "(transitive) to blame or reproach (someone), especially in a good-natured or teasing manner; (intransitive) to blame or reproach, especially in a good-natured or teasing manner — see also blame, reproach",
"word": "упреквам"
},
{
"_dis1": "36 13 5 9 35 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "cháoxiào",
"sense": "(transitive) to blame or reproach (someone), especially in a good-natured or teasing manner; (intransitive) to blame or reproach, especially in a good-natured or teasing manner — see also blame, reproach",
"word": "嘲笑"
},
{
"_dis1": "36 13 5 9 35 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zébèi",
"sense": "(transitive) to blame or reproach (someone), especially in a good-natured or teasing manner; (intransitive) to blame or reproach, especially in a good-natured or teasing manner — see also blame, reproach",
"word": "责备"
},
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"_dis1": "36 13 5 9 35 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "(transitive) to blame or reproach (someone), especially in a good-natured or teasing manner; (intransitive) to blame or reproach, especially in a good-natured or teasing manner — see also blame, reproach",
"word": "kiusoitella"
},
{
"_dis1": "36 13 5 9 35 2",
"code": "nap",
"lang": "Neapolitan",
"sense": "(transitive) to blame or reproach (someone), especially in a good-natured or teasing manner; (intransitive) to blame or reproach, especially in a good-natured or teasing manner — see also blame, reproach",
"word": "sfotte"
},
{
"_dis1": "36 13 5 9 35 2",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "(transitive) to blame or reproach (someone), especially in a good-natured or teasing manner; (intransitive) to blame or reproach, especially in a good-natured or teasing manner — see also blame, reproach",
"word": "mustra"
},
{
"_dis1": "36 13 5 9 35 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uprekátʹ",
"sense": "(transitive) to blame or reproach (someone), especially in a good-natured or teasing manner; (intransitive) to blame or reproach, especially in a good-natured or teasing manner — see also blame, reproach",
"word": "упрека́ть"
},
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"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "(transitive) to blame or reproach (someone), especially in a good-natured or teasing manner; (intransitive) to blame or reproach, especially in a good-natured or teasing manner — see also blame, reproach",
"word": "edliw"
}
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"_dis1": "0 0 0",
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{
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"text": "(blame):"
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"text": "(ridicule):"
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"ref": "1865 September 12, John Williamson, Maurice Fitzgerald, compiler, “Separation. Adjourned Debate.”, in New Zealand. Parliamentary Debates. Third and Fourth Parliaments. […] (House of Representatives), Wellington: G. Didsbury, government printer, published 1887, →OCLC, page 499, column 2",
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"ref": "1893 October 14, “‘Masterly Inactivity’”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume CV, London: […] Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 174, column 2",
"text": "Dear France, thou thy insular neighbour oft twittest / As \"Shopkeeper!\" Well ma'am, j'y suis, and shall stop; / For a Shopkeeper's one who—of course—keeps the Shop!",
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"ref": "1954 May, Rex Stout, “When a Man Murders”, in The American Magazine, volume 157, New York, N.Y.: Colver Publishing House, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 128, columns 1–2; republished in Three Witnesses, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, October 1994, page 106",
"text": "Mr. Cramer, a policeman, came this morning and twitted me for having let a murderer hoodwink me.",
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"ref": "1962 August, “Talking of Trains: Under Their Hats”, in Modern Railways, Shepperton, Surrey: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 80",
"text": "Secrecy about B.R. plans for reorganisation and closure of lines and notably some failures to consult with staff representatives concerned with redundancy, are defects with which the railway unions have twitted Dr. Beeching.",
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"ref": "2007 April 5, Bernard Porter, “Did He Puff His Crimes to Please a Bloodthirsty Readership? Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal. Faber, 570 pp., £25, March 2007, 978 0 571 22102 8 [book review]”, in Mary-Kay Wilmers, editor, London Review of Books, volume 29, number 7, London: LRB Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-03-03, page 10",
"text": "H[enry] R[ichard] Fox Bourne, secretary of the Aborigines' Protection Society – often twitted for being an 'armchair critic' – wrote in a review of one of [Henry Morton] Stanley's books: 'The Society is not condemning Mr Stanley or his subordinates so much, but the mounting of an expedition with aims and methods which almost necessitated the cruelties and slaughters that were incident to it … It seems better to remain in armchairs and pass resolutions than wantonly to embark on perilous enterprises, which can only be carried out by means that degrade Englishmen.'",
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"ref": "1995 December 5, Michelle Jackson, “Debutante/Question about Tori Shirts”, in rec.music.tori-amos (Usenet)",
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"text": "[…] [Francis] Coster a Ieſuit againſt Luke Oſiander, vvho obiecting out of Peter Lombard thoſe vvords, (Credit oportet, It muſt be beleeued) that the bleſſed Virgins fleſh vvas conceiued in originall ſinne; and pretending by thoſe vvords, to proue a Catholike beliefe therein, Coſter thus tvvitteth and retorteth againſt him; […]",
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"sense": "(transitive) to blame or reproach (someone), especially in a good-natured or teasing manner; (intransitive) to blame or reproach, especially in a good-natured or teasing manner — see also blame, reproach",
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"sense": "(transitive) to blame or reproach (someone), especially in a good-natured or teasing manner; (intransitive) to blame or reproach, especially in a good-natured or teasing manner — see also blame, reproach",
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"sense": "(transitive) to blame or reproach (someone), especially in a good-natured or teasing manner; (intransitive) to blame or reproach, especially in a good-natured or teasing manner — see also blame, reproach",
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"ref": "1988 (date written), Larry Kramer, Just Say No: A Play about a Farce, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, published 1989, Act II, page 66",
"text": "What do you mean, since when did I become such a radical fairy! […] Since I started knowing twits like you, you twit!",
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