Also 6 twyte. [f. TWIT v.]
1. An act of twitting; a (light) censure or reproach; a taunt.
1528. in Strype, Eccl. Mem. (1721), I. App. xvii. 38. Which bookes the sayd Frear dyd litle regard, and made a twyte of it.
1664. Etheredge, Love in Tub, V. v. Upon Condition that there be no Twits of the Good Man departed.
1847. L. Hunt, Men, Women & B., II. x. 224. An occasional twit at him for disappointing her.
b. dial. (See quot.)
a. 1825. Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Twit, a fit of hasty ill-humour; snappishness.
2. ? A person given to twitting; dial. a tale-bearer.
1719. D’Urfey, Pills (1872), VI. 241. A silly, peevish Twit.
1896. Warwick Gloss., s.v., ‘You are a twit.’
