twerp
/twəːp/
US pronunciation
American sound/twəːp/
twerp
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- 1 syllable
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- One strong syllable
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- Schwa vowel
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US voice -> twerp
Myanmar meaning
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- ‘He's just an annoying twerp who contributes nothing.’
- ‘It's just a shame he's inherited such a bunch of jobsworth twerps underneath him.’
- ‘His boldness and clarity infuriates opponents - academe is crowded with critics who have made twerps of themselves taking him on.’
- ‘The old-style rugby shirts are produced now only as fashion items, and are worn exclusively by those very public-schoolboy twerps for whom the game of rugby no longer has any use.’
- ‘I ate my breakfast quickly, said goodbye to the twerps and headed outside where my two best friends, Summer and Bryan, were waiting for me in Bryan's car.’
- ‘Half of me said that I shouldn't be afraid of these little twerps.’
- ‘Goya will obviously survive these twerps, whose names will be forgotten a few years from now.’
- ‘It's time to wipe the floor with those twerps once and for all.’
- ‘But this is supposed to be the big, golden-era throwback drama to remind us that TV can be about more than singing competitions featuring twerps in daft haircuts and distressed jeans.’
- ‘Those twerps could set his blood boiling in a matter of seconds.’
- ‘But these twerps are just obscene, and they have no idea how tiresome it appears, and how boringly ordinary they all look.’
- ‘Then she jabbed herself into the crowd and shoved many people to get to the front while saying, ‘Move it, twerps!’’
- ‘The natural response to that public admission of arrogance, violence and stupidity is to counter it with: ‘If we have to legislate to stop immature twerps like you then we will.’’
- ‘Turning tables on twits and twerps, not to mention Tweedledees & Tweedledums, seemed like good idea at the time.’
- ‘By all accounts, he's a bit of a loner, doesn't suffer fools gladly, is a bit of an obnoxious twerp, a shy, intelligent, social misfit.’
- ‘Am I a cold-hearted fiend or are they just truly irritating little twerps?’
- ‘There's never a constable around when you need one so the only recourse was that taken by the driver of a bus who sat thumping the horn repeatedly until the twerp came along to move and clear the jam.’
- ‘I felt a little sorry for him but all the twerp had to do was return a call.’
- ‘Obviously, these twerps won't do the dirty work themselves.’
- ‘These twerps were all nobodies last week and will be again by the end of the year.’
Synonyms
ass, birdbrain, blockhead, bonehead, boob, bore, buffoon, clod, clown, cretin, dimwit, dolt, dope, dumb ox, dunce, dunderhead, easy mark, fair game, fathead, fool, goose, halfwit, idiot, ignoramus, illiterate, imbecile, innocent, jackass, jerk, lamebrain, lightweight, loon, mooncalf, moron, nerd, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, nobody, nonentity, numskull, oaf, runt, sap, schlemiel, shrimp, silly, simple, simpleton, softhead, squirt, stooge, sucker, tomfool, turkey, twit, victim, whippersnapper
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