Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
The vagina or vulva. · A contemptible and stupid person; an idiot.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo hit, slap.
Unknown origin. Possibly cognate with Old Norse þveit (“cut, slit, forest clearing”), and if so a doublet of thwaite. May however simply be onomatopoeic or sound-symbolic.
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