LekhoriLekhoriA jibe, reproach, or taunt, especially one made in a good-natured or teasing manner.
[T]he ſayd Thomas Hilles & this Reſpondent ſhevvyd the Frear Barons of certayne old Bookes that they had: as of iiij Evangeliſtes, and certayne Epiſtles of Peter & Poule in Engliſhe. VVhich Bookes the ſayd Frear dyd litle regard, and made a tvvyte of it, & ſayd, A poynt for them, for they be not to be regarded tovvard the nevv printed Teſtament in Engliſhe.
A short, high-pitched call of a small bird, or a similar sound made by something else; a cheep, a chirp, a tweet.
Used to represent the short, high-pitched call of a small bird, or a similar sound made by something else: cheep, tweet.
Midnights bell goes ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, / Then dogs doe hovvle, and not a bird does ſing: / But the Nightingale, and ſhe cries tvvit, tvvit, tvvit, tvvit, / Ovvles then on euerie bovve doe ſit.
PIE word *h₂éd The verb is an apheretic form of atwite (“(obsolete) to blame, reproach”), from Middle English atwiten (“to attribute (something) to someone; to blame (something) on someone; to accuse...
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To criticize or disapprove of (something), especially in a good-natured or teasing manner.
But in the Lovver Houſe ſome there vvere vvhich handled theſe things more tumultuouſly, namely, Bell and Monſon, great Lavvyers, Dutton, Paul VVentvvorth, and others, vvhich tvvitted the Authority of the Queen's Majeſty too much, […]
To ignore or kill file (a user on a bulletin board system).
However, on the Internet BBS's such as Quartz (now dead), Prism, Monsoon, Sunset, ect,^([sic – meaning etc]) someone pulling that kind of crap is likely to get flamed quite fast and twitted before he/she can breathe.
The minutes seem'd hours—with impatience she heard / The flap of a leaf, and the twit of a bird; […]
Chiefly in the form in a twit: clipping of twitter (“a state of excitement or nervousness”).