Meaning

10 senses
  1. One who twists.

  2. One who twists.

    One whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving.

  3. An instrument used in twisting or making twists.

  4. A ball delivered with a twist, as in cricket or billiards.

  5. (colloquial)A tornado.

  6. A girder.

  7. (dated)The inner part of the thigh, the proper place to rest upon when on horseback.

  8. (UK, colloquial)A crook, a villain.

  9. Any member of the species Tholymis tillarga of libellulid dragonfly, of tropical West Africa to Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands.

  10. The party game Twister, usually capitalized, or a variant.

More definitions
  • small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts
  • a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground

Examples

26 sentences
  1. It's a very difficult tongue-twister.

    Це дуже складна скоромовка. — deniko

    deDas ist ein überaus schwieriger Zungenbrecher. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. What's your favorite tongue twister?

    ruКакая у тебя любимая скороговорка? — sharptoothed

    deWelcher ist dein Lieblingszungenbrecher? — Vortarulo

  3. His surname is a tongue-twister.

    У нього прізвище - язик зламаєш. — deniko

    deSein Nachname ist ein Zungenbrecher. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  4. My mother knows lots of riddles and tongue-twisters.

    Моя мати знає багато загадок і скоромовок. — Walentinio

  5. Do you know any French tongue-twisters?

Origin

From Middle English twyster, equivalent to twist + -er.

From Middle English twyster, equivalent to twist + -er.

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Forms

plural: twisters
Singulartwister
Pluraltwisters

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts:cruller
  • a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground:tornado

Word family

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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