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Re: What about twat?
Fri, December 9, 2005 - 4:57 PMA twat is an items of nun's clothing. Head gear, to be precise. -
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Re: What about twat?
Mon, December 12, 2005 - 2:05 PMThat's actually a misattribution. According to Hugh Rawson in "Wicked Words" (1986), in a 1660 satirical poem, Vanity of Vanities, "an Old Nuns Twat" is referred to, meaning her vagina. Robert Browning, in 1841, however thought this meant part of the nun's hat, and used it as such in his famous poem, "Pippa Passes", referring to "cowls and twats/Monks and nuns in cloister's moods".
Since then, more prudish folks have continued to believe twat is part of a nun's headpiece, but it just aint so...
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Re: What about twat?
Mon, December 12, 2005 - 2:10 PMHere's the OED text. Apparently it's related to "twit".
twat
low slang.
[Of obscure origin.]
1. (See quot. 1727.)
Erroneously used (after quot. 1660) by Browning Pippa Passes IV. ii. 96 under the impression that it denoted some part of a nun's attire.
1656 R. FLETCHER tr. Martial II. xliv. 104.
1660 Vanity of Vanities (Anon.) 65 They talk't of his having a Cardinalls Hat, They'd send him as soon an Old Nuns Twat.
a1704 T. BROWN Sober Slip in Dark Wks. 1711 IV. 182 A dang'rous Street, Where Stones and Twaits in frosty Winters meet.
1719 D'URFEY Pills III. 307.
1727 BAILEY vol. II, Twat, pudendum muliebre. Twat-scowerer, a Surgeon or Doctor. E. Ward.
1919 E. E. CUMMINGS Let. 18 Aug. (1969) 61 On Tuesday an Uhlan To her twat put his tool in.
1934 H. MILLER Tropic of Cancer 55 A man with something between his legs that could..make her grab that bushy twat of hers with both hands and rub it joyfully.
1959 N. MAILER Advts. for Myself (1961) 101 The clothes off, the guards are driving them into the other room, and smack their hands on skinny flesh and bony flesh, it's bag a tittie and snatch a twot.
1970 G. GREER Female Eunuch 39 No woman wants to find out that she has a twat like a horse-collar.
1973 P. WHITE Eye of Storm iii. 137 This young thing with the swinging hair and partially revealed twat.
2. A term of vulgar abuse. Cf. TWIT n.1 2b and CUNT 2.
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3. U.S. dial. The buttocks.
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Re: What about twat?
Tue, December 13, 2005 - 11:34 AMI read the same thing of pippa Passes about the misattribution...hooray! Twats revealed.
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Re: What about twat?
Sun, March 23, 2008 - 4:05 PMWow, I always assumed that it was referring to between, like twain. Guess you can't assume too much. We have an area of our place that we refer to as the twat because it's triangular and between two roads. Damn. Anyway, it's a good word. Should be used more regardless of the origins.
