*****YOU TWAT******

[Twatlett]

it just patently isn't an insult is it

a vulva is a very nice part of the anatomy

reclaim the twat in you girls

Oh Twiglett

you great FRONT BOTTOM you

Twig, you ARE on form today

was it too early in the morning to be discussing fanjos then?

oh its a horrible word and very derogatory! Fanjo is mildly amusing though.

Twiglett go to the norty step!

i had a twat in my office just now.

he had a penis, but he's still a twat.

it's a horrible word! twatto is better

I was brought up to believe it was a pregnant fish so cannot take it seriously

i persistently used the phrase 'gutted mouse' to dp yesterday and he was not impressed

""Twat is found in the Oxford English Dictionary and is still listed as a term for a female goldfish 'with egg development,' but as a term of archaic usage."

We turned to the OED. The compilers of this noble work, determined to include every bona fide English word, had indeed listed twat. But instead of defining it themselves, they chastely noted, "See [quotation] 1727."

We glanced down the impressive array of citations of twat usage over the centuries. Ah: "1727 Bailey vol. II, Twat, pudendum muliebre. Twat-scowerer, a Surgeon or Doctor." This was the familiar twat of our childhood, although the lads in the school yard hadn't used Latin. We noted that twat had been employed in the traditional sense by such masters of the language as e.e. cummings ("On Tuesday an Uhlan / To her twat put his tool in"), Henry Miller, and Germaine Greer ("No woman wants to find out that she has a twat like a horse-collar"). No mention of fish at any point."

a twat is a pregnant fish?
and a shag is a bird

what's the world coming to?

'No woman wants to find out that she has a twat like a horse-collar'
hehehehe.
I agree, we need to reclaim the word like gay men have reclaimed the word queer or puff.

I love and hate the word in equal quantities... I would never use it to refer to a womans genitals but look to use it as a an alternative to 'idiot'/'fool'/'prat' which is what I believe the meaning is mutating to I might say "I am such a twat" when I have made a silly mistake.

I can't think which word I prefer least

'twat' or 'cunt'

both make me shudder

I guess it's just me and my furry front bottom them

Any of you lot seen the vagina monologues, lots of reclaiming of such words to be done there!

puff?

poof surely

could i just throw a spanner in the works by saying that i find the word 'twunt' to be highly amusing though!

I love the word 'twunt' I have taken it to my bosom and use it in everyday life... I find it works best on paper though.

I spent many a year using the word "twat" as in "prat" or "idiot" until dh took me aside and explained what it meant . To this day I wonder how many people I offended with it!

I think it's regional though.. it's commonplace here to refer to someone or yourself as a twat when meaning 'idiot' etc nobody would take offence

Birk means the same as twat. Not a lot of people know that.

There's a chapter in the Vagina Monologues called 'Reclaiming Cunt' and at the end of the chapter the reader (Lucy Benjamin from Eastenders in my case) gets the whole audience to scream out the word 'CUNT' and it's actually a liberating experience. I went with my mum.

Oh, and quinny used to be a Medieval word for the vagina and I have to smile whenever I see a child in a Quinny pushchair as I just thing from one quinny into another!

I tend to say to people, when they use that word, 'I find my twat/cunt very useful, unlike the person you are describing'