Noun: twirp
| Singular | twirp |
| Plural | twirps |
Sample Sentences
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Don't be such a twirp. I'll be back in twenty minutes. Watch the clock! Time me! I'm going to take the bus. [1924, Munsey's Magazine: Volume 81, page 561:]
Nouns inflected like twirp
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Unknown, possibly derived from the onomatopoeia. See twerp.