twerp

\ ˈtwərp

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variants: or less commonly twirp

Definition of twerp

: a silly, insignificant, or contemptible person

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Examples of twerp in a Sentence

Some little twerp took her seat. Her boyfriend's just a pretentious twerp.

Recent Examples on the Web That’s the mystery and the magnetism of what the actor’s doing, and without it this Henry would merely be a Lancastrian twerp. — BostonGlobe.com, "‘The King’ revisits Shakespeare’s favorite young monarch - The Boston Globe," 24 Oct. 2019 To that end, its supporting characters are vivid: One step above Travis in the FAM hierarchy is Cody (Théodore Pellerin), a type-A twerp with a masochistic streak. — Judy Berman, Time, "On Becoming a God in Central Florida," 20 Aug. 2019 The fear is that kids who habitually order Amazon's Alexa to read them a story or command Google's Assistant to tell them a joke are learning to communicate not as polite, considerate citizens, but as demanding little twerps. — Robbie Gonzalez, WIRED, "Hey Alexa, What Are You Doing to My Kid's Brain?," 11 May 2018 In addition to that little twerp from New England, Ballard also interviewed Matt Nagy, Mike Vrabel, Matt Ruhle and Kris Richard, and scheduled an interview with Steve Wilks that was canceled. — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, "Doyel: I love* Colts hire of Frank Reich, and doubters can kiss my asterisk," 11 Feb. 2018 Her latest protégé, Don Atari (Kyle Mooney), is an anti-fashion hipster and sour little twerp whose idea of a fashion-show locale is a garbage dump. — Stephen Holden, New York Times, "Movie Review: ‘Zoolander 2’," 11 Feb. 2016

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12 Nov 2019

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The first known use of twerp was circa 1923

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