† twit-twat Obs. rare.
Also twit twot.
[app. shortened from prec.]
† 1. = prec. Also attrib. Obs.
| 1677 A. Yarranton Eng. Improv. 46 This way of ordering the young Women in Germany is one great cause that the German Women have so little of the twit twat. Ibid. 101 The strange News you hear at Coffee-houses..is generally idle Twit twot Discourse. Ibid. 170 Command Silence; Suffer not your Wives to use any Twit-twat. |
2. A name for the house-sparrow.
| 1891 in Cent. Dict. |