noun · rare

twerp

twerp · twerps

A fool, a twitA fool, a twit.

UK/twɜːp/US/twɝp/

» What a stupid little twerp.

Was für ein dummer kleiner Blödmann.

Ну що за дурноватий малолітній покидьок.

Meaning

3 senses

(UK, colloquial)A fool, a twit.
Now you've broken it, you twerp!
дура́кdurák, тупи́цаtupíca
(US, childish, colloquial)A small or puny person; one regarded as insignificant, contemptible.
Get out of my way, you little twerp!
ничто́жествоničtóžestvo
someone who is regarded as contemptible
(US, childish, colloquial)A person who can be bullied playfully, or easily teased. Sometimes used as a pet-name (often for a younger sibling).
простофи́ляprostofílja

Examples

1 sentences

What a stupid little twerp.
Ну що за дурноватий малолітній покидьок.
deWas für ein dummer kleiner Blödmann.
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Translations

2 languages

Русский

a fool, a twit:

a small or puny person; one regarded as insignificant, contemptible:

a person who can be bullied playfully, or easily teased:

Origin

Of uncertain origin; originally British slang of the 1910s. In a letter, dated 6 October 1

Of uncertain origin; originally British slang of the 1910s. In a letter, dated 6 October 1944, J. R. R. Tolkien mentions a contemporary of his at Oxford University T.W. Earp, calling him "the original twerp"; but no corroborating evidence for this etymology has come to light. Other suggestions include: a clipping of Antwerp (“type of racing pigeon that flew between Antwerp and London”); the onomatopoeic twirp (“imitation of the sound of a bird”); a dialectal variant of dwarf (compare Middle English dwerf); Welsh twp (“a fool”).

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