twit

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TWIT, verb transitive [Latin ad, to.] To reproach; to upbraid; as for some previous act. He twitted his friend of falsehood. With this these scoffers twitted the christians. Aesop minds men of their errors, without twitting them for what is amiss.
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