Law of the Playground

an archive of the least coherent encyclopaedia of playground insults on the internet
twat

Original ID   : 754
Created On    : 2002-11-24
Last Modified : 2005-05-01


For a long time, a young and good looking Christian female teacher at our boy’s Grammar school was under the unfortunate but rather amusing misapprehension that the definition of the word “twat” was “a female goldfish”, and would regularly call people “you little twat” when they’d messed something up. When some enterprising fifth year brought in an “adult” dictionary and pointed out the real definition her face stayed red for about a month.

Darsy

This echoes a young belief in Nottingham, that a twat was either (i) a pregnant goldfish or (ii) a very silly twit.

Jon B

Although it ends a bit rubbish, at least you get to shout this, because you’re having difficulty hearing each other.

Cindy J