Etymology

twat

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Today it means: The vagina or vulva. Full definition →

Old Norse þveit
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The story

  1. Old Norse · derived fromþveit“cut, slit, forest clearing”
  2. English todaytwat

Unknown origin. Possibly cognate with Old Norse þveit (“cut, slit, forest clearing”), and if so a doublet of thwaite. May however simply be onomatopoeic or sound-symbolic.

Words from the same roots

Old Norseþveit all →

TwattthwaiteGarthwaiteHebblethwaiteLewthwaiteSwathwickTvedt

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.