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You don't know that one? Classic. Quote:twat . low slang. Also 8 twait, 20 twot(t. [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 ...
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