From: Dr Chris R. Tame (chris@rand.demon.co.uk)
Date: Mon Feb 05 2001 - 15:39:23 MST
In article <000001c08fbd$a41e6460$0201010a@intergalactic>, denis bider
<denis.bider@globera.com> writes
>Dr. Chris R. Tame writes, in response to Damien Broderick:
>
>> Your response to my request indicates that whatever lessons it might
>> have to teach would probably be better studied by yourself.
>> And that's enough of my time wasted with an unpleasant twat.
>
>From www.dictionary.com:
>
> twat (twot) n. Obscene
> 1. The vulva.
> 2. Used as a disparaging term for a woman.
> [Origin unknown.]
>
>I am glad to be able to participate in a mailing list where I can learn a
>new word every day - and from a Dr., at that!
>
>- denis
>
>
Happy to oblige!
However, the dictionary entry is misleading. The general vernacular
usage in the UK means any unpleasant and/or stupid individual, usually
male. The sexual origin is largely forgotten, and it can be quite widely
heard in TV programmes (in a way that the "C" word would not). I have
never once - in a wide experience of billingsgate - heard it applied to
a woman.
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