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Definition of Twitting
1. twit [v] - See also: twit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Twitting
Literary usage of Twitting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Institute of the Law of Scotland: In Four Books : in the Order of Sir by John Erskine, George Mackenzie, James Ivory (1828)
"... where it is accompanied with any ill-natured injurious : and even twitting
one with the deformity of his person TITLE IV. expression, that may place him ..."
2. The Daughter at School by John Todd (1854)
"twitting upon Facts." Help your Mother. Household Duties. Apologize for Nothing.
Sit still but an Hour. Afternoon Occupations. Franklin's Courtesy. ..."
3. A Review of Captain Basil Hall's Travels in North America in the Years 1827 by Richard Biddle (1830)
"deprecates " twitting'' on such a subject, as it " tends to irritate two countries
who have no cause of quarrel 1" In the same sneering temper, Captain Hall ..."
4. Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: During the Last Twenty Years of by Hester Lynch Piozzi (1786)
"... by way of twitting ; till at laft I told her, that I thought we had had talk
enough about the floor, we would now have a touch at the deling. ..."
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