Meanings
plural twunts
- CommonwealthIrelandUKslangvulgarA fool; an extremely objectionable person.
Is that the twunt who looks like Bill Bailey's younger brother?
2003 November 29, Thanatos, “Annoying ads”, in uk.media.tv.misc (Usenet)5 more examples
Sorry for being kind of a twunt about other matters, but it's because of posts like this that I don't want to write you off or lose you as a friend.
2003 August 13, David Watson, “the UN in anime”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet)Let the pub-dodging twunt embarrass himself with his primitive, witless and repetitive insults.
2003 October 29, Farlie A, “Peter 'Heather' Thomas!”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet)I note that in a recent New Scientist some twunt was advocating the use of C02 pressure washers and acidic/caustic cleaning foams instead of the usual disinfectant approach.
2005 February 25, David Marshall, “Re: Election Campaign”, in alt.dur.general (Usenet)It is completely normal to harbour desires to batter these smug twunts about the head with a hot MacBook Air.
2011 July 8, Grace Dent, The Guardian, 8 Jul 2011“You're so perfect at everything, deal with it yourself. I'm outta here.” [glass shattering] “Okay. That sounded expensive. Terry, Terry, don't be a twunt. What did you break?”
2023 August 14, May Darmon, “The Re-Visibility Bouillabaisse” (9:01 from the start), in Solar Opposites, season 4, episode 10, spoken by Korvo (Dan Stevens)
Origin
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twunt. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/twunt
“twunt.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/twunt. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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