Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (also twat-hole, twatt, twattle, twit-twat, twoit, twot, twotch) the vagina; in pl., the labia [twit-twat is lit. abbr. SE twittle-twattle, idle talk].

1656		R. Fletcher trans. Martiall his Epigrams XI No. 44 103: Caught with my Boyes, at me my wife the Froe Scolds, and cryes out she hath an ars-hole too [...] Give not male names then to such things as thine, But think thou hast two Twats o wife of mine.
1660		Wandring Whore II 12: As W— the Butchers son in the Stocks did Honor Brooks the rammish Scotch whore at D— between her Legs, not forgetting that Ursula had half a crown for showing her Twit-twat there, and half a crown for stroaking the marrow out of a mans Gristle.
1680		‘Ballad on Sir Robert Peyton’ in Lord Poems on Affairs of State (1965) II 309: ’Twas not Estcourt the sot, / That knew all the plot, / And could only discover his mother’s lewd tw-t.
1680		School of Venus (2004) 11: Katy. What call you the Wenches Thing? Frank. In plain English, it is called a Cunt, though they out of an affected modesty [...] call it a Twot and Twenty such kind of Names.
1690		‘Anniversary’ Cabinet of Love (1739) 231: Each salacious itching Twatt and Arse Pleads Non-Resistance to the Royal Tarse.
1700		‘By Cleveland’ in Playford Pills to Purge Melancholy II 324: Teeth yellow as Box, / Half out with the Pox [...] Her Twattle does run / As swift as the Sun.
a.1701		N. Ward Revels of the Gods 6: I know by your Smiles, Leering looks, and your Winks, / And your Items and Jeers, you’d Insinuate it Stinks: / Dispraising the Nectar, well knowing you meant, / That a Health to my Tw—t gave the Juice an Ill-Scent.
1719		in D’Urfey Pills to Purge Melancholy III 307: I took her by the lilly white Hand, / And by the Twat I caught her, / I swear and vow, and tell you true, / She piss’d in my Hand with Laughter.
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		in Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. n.p.: twat. Pudendum muliebre.
c.1786		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Tuzzy-Muzzy Mater omnium Sanctorum. Twat The same.
1837–8		‘Sam Swipes’ Cuckold’s Nest 20: There was lanky and short, tall, chubby, and fat, / Who were all red hot for a slap at her ---.
c.1864		parody in Rakish Rhymer (1917) 131: She’s a pretty twot and big fat bottom.
1866		E. Sellon Phoebe Kissagen 51: A girl with nice clear skin, pretty plump, and not much hair on her twat.
1871		‘The Queen & Louise’ in Bold (1979) 190: With a hand on her twat she said, ‘Just look at that — / It was made for the Marquis of Lorne.’.
1888–94		‘Walter’ My Secret Life (1966) IX 1908: Then she squatted and bathed her cunt, in doing which she luckily faced me and I saw her twats fairly well and the hair on her motte.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
1898		‘Suzan Aked’ The Simple Tale of Suzan Aked 39: Instead of finding a nice charming bush, and a hot little twot ready and eager for his hand and probing finger, this wretched calico would be in his way!
c.1900		‘Ramrod’ Nocturnal Meeting 41: The lips of the fresh-fucked twat.
1925		E. Field ‘A French Crisis’ Facetiae Americana 21: This prick had mown a swath of twats of every size and age.
1934		‘J.M. Hall’ Anecdota Americana II 75: [He] rubbed some of the fluid on her arms, then some on her breasts and lastly a generous amount on her twotch. [Ibid.] 109: This twotch titillator / Is much in demand.
1939		H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn (1964) 164: He shoved a big long carrot up her twat.
1942		M. Page ‘Lagos Lagoon’ Kiss Me Goodnight, Sgt.-Major (1973) 55: One night they went out to the native hot spots, / Pinching black udders and feeling black twats.
1945		‘Old Mother Murphy’ in Mess Songs & Rhymes of the RAAF 31: She can balance two pennies on the ends of her dairies, / Do a double somersault and catch them in her twot.
1949		H. Miller Sexus (1969) 232: Poking this thing in and out of her twat in absent-minded glee.
1955		J.P. Donleavy Ginger Man (1958) 71: Lady Gawk tickling her twat with a Chinese fan.
1959		‘Count Palmiro Vicarion’ Limericks 12: He made darts of brown paper / Which he languidly tossed at her twat.
1961		R. Gover One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding 23: He jes standin there wiff his fay face all wrinkle up like a gran-mothah twoit.
1965		(con. WWII) E. Lambert Long White Night 80: ‘Where are you off to?’ ‘Where do you think? Get a bit of twot.’.
1968		N. Heard Howard Street 171: Some dumb, religion-soaked bitch who was saving her dry little twat for Jesus.
1970		B. Naughton Alfie Darling 195: The worst thing that could happen to me would be that I’d get laid out before I got my bit of twot.
1976		E. Thompson Caldo Largo (1980) 246: I pinched her twat and she squealed.
1986		T. Philbin Under Cover 264: Next time I search your dump I will find the H. You know where? Up your wife’s twat!
1996		(con. 1964-65) B. Thorpe Sex and Thugs and Rock ’n’ Roll 266: ‘Say “fuck, shit, dick, balls [...] and a big hairy twat”...you Pommie cunt’.
1998		‘Bill E. Goodhead’ Nubile Treat 🌐 Ned had let up for a moment on the probing of her twat-hole with his tongue, and instead was slurping away on her labia like a cat licking cream.
1998		N. Palmer ‘Vegan Reich’ in Home Suspect Device 29: Teri exposed her funky twat to Tina.
2000		M.E. Dassad ‘Chickenhawk’ at www.cultdeadcow.com 🌐 No doubt remembering her uncle’s bone pistoning in and out of her tight young twat while his friend’s meat ravaged her wet, gaping mouth, choking off her air passage.
2008		Simon & Burns ‘A Burning Dog’ Generation Kill ep. 5 [TV script] It’s a picture of a reporter’s girlfriend, not of J-Lo’s cum-dripping twat.
2010		L. Redhead Thrill City [ebook] Girls working hot had shoved in and pulled out anything that would fit up their twats.
2017		D. Winslow The Force [ebook] ‘Where’s the wire?’ ‘Up your mother’s twat’.

2. (also twot, twotface) a derog. term for a woman.

1933		(con. 1900s) C. McKay Banana Bottom 143: Jes’ a twat like any udder in de fox grass wid all har preening and primping an’ fanning har ’long de road like a high lady.
1948		(con. 1944) N. Mailer Naked and Dead 290: Models, actresses, good-lookin’ twots.
1963		T.I. Rubin Sweet Daddy 83: That lousy bitched up broad, that finking god-damned twat. [...] My mother.
1970		B. Naughton Alfie Darling 199: Good old Twotface.
1979		D. Gram Foxes (1980) 129: I mean, at least she wasn’t some stuck up twat.
1981		(con. 1966) P. Conroy Lords of Discipline 218: I’m farting like a motherfucking bastard, Theresa, you flapping twat.
1986		R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 28: Plenty of twat around.
1997		C. Hiaasen Lucky You 185: Greedy freeloading twat.
2001		J. Stahl Plainclothes Naked (2002) 168: We oughta call that Tina twat.
2013		Eve. Standard (London) 31 July 8/5: She called [her] a ‘slutbag’, a ‘tw*t’ and ‘c**t’.
2017		T. Pluck Bad Boy Boogie [ebook] ‘If I wanted a peckerwood sitting on my face, I’d work the trucks like that twat’.
2023		(con. 1962) J. Ellroy Enchanters 342: ‘Liz Taylor told me.’ ‘That fat twat’.

3. (also twatt, twot) a term of abuse, irrespective of gender.

1922		‘J.H. Ross’ Mint (1955) 121: The silly twat didn’t know if his arse-hole was bored, punched, drilled, or countersunk.
1929		(con. 1916) F. Manning Her Privates We (1986) 208: They let a bloody twat like ’im off.
1944		M. Page ‘The Twats In The Ops Room’ Kiss Me Goodnight, Sgt.-Major (1973) 114: What we do object to are those fucking Ops Room twats.
1947		J. Maclaren-Ross Of Love and Hunger 114: Watch out for him, he’ll do the dirty on you if he can, the slimy twatt.
1958		(con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 168: No, you silly twot.
1959		C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 206: I love you, Hoplite [...] but I really must tell you some day that you’re a t—t.
1963		C. Wood ‘Prisoner & Escort’ Cockade (1965) I i: Queen’s Rules and Regulations do not protect you. Not twats like you.
1963		K. Williams Diaries 3 Jan. 205: Said the dialogue was so fast he felt he was ‘missing some pearls.’ [...] This certainly isn’t true, but even if it were they’d have been cast before swine with this twot present.
1979		D. Gram Foxes (1980) 38: ‘Asshole Fuckdog Honky Cunt!’ shrieked the dude at her back. ‘Twat!’.
1984		A. Sayle Train to Hell 20: They are such twats that nobody will go with them.
1990		S. Morgan Homeboy 253: A hightone twat from Tucson who was weekends at the Ritz.
1996		P. Temple Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] He’d dob anyone, every little twat he heard big-noting himself in a pub.
1998		J. O’Connor Salesman 251: A fat stupid gormless twat. A fuckin’ loser. Look at yerself, man.
1999		D. Looser ‘Boob Jargon’ in NZEJ 13 36: twat n. An idiot.
2007		Guardian 25 Aug. 🌐 The bizzies are twats. I’ve slashed their tyres twice. It’s funny.
2009		P. Temple Truth 82: The twat says we fitted the little Quirk bastard.
2011		Internat. Independent 19 July 46/3: I have to admit I was a horrible twat.
2014		T.M. Simmler ‘Suicide Chump’ in ThugLit July [ebook] I felt like a twat for making the first move.
2016		T. Robinson Rough Trade [ebook] ‘I’m gay, you twat’.
2018		G. Gilmore Base Nature [ebook] Those scenes from the movies: you try them in real life and you always look like a twat.
2019		M. Herron Joe Country [ebook] ‘[T]hey’re a bunch of useless twats’.
2023		R. Milward Man-Eating Typewriter 31: The trenchcoats and jackboots moved in: eagle-eeked twats preaching to some obscene supremacy.

4. attrib. use of sense 3.

2000		W.T. Vollmann Royal Family 320: Stupid twat name she tells me.
2016		Guardian G2 30 Sept. 5/3: Oh, my God, that is a twat thing to say .

5. (US) the buttocks.

1953		L. Uris Battle Cry (1964) 388: We sat on our twats on Bairiki.
1998		J. Lansdale Rumble Tumble 68: The rest of her had on a red G-string that was mostly up her twat.

6. (US gay) the anus.

1972

B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular.

7. something unpleasant, second-rate.

1983		S. King Christine 143: The sound of men working on cars and hollering profanity at the rolling iron [...] always female in gender: come offa there, you bitch, come loose, you cunt, come on over here, Rick, and help me get this twat off.
2001		K. Sampson Outlaws (ms.) 134: She is fucking fine at that particular twat of a job.

8. (US black) used as a deliberately coarse substitute for SE what?

2000

Ebonics Primer at www.dolemite.com ) twat Definition: [...] 2. by pronunciation you can exagerate the ‘wat’ and shorten the ‘t’ and give it the sound of ‘what’ Example: Teacher: Rob, were you listening to what I was saying? Rob: Twat did you say to me????

9. a neutral term for a person.

2000		Indep. Rev. 4 Mar. 8: He’s just described the character as ‘a kind of surly twat.’.
2000		N. Griffiths Grits 60: Every twat chips in like, no fucker goes hungry.