Synonyms of the word

twit

• v. (transitive) To reproach, blame; to ridicule or tease.
• v. (transitive, computing) To ignore or killfile (a user on a bulletin board system).
• n. A reproach, gibe or taunt.
• n. A foolish or annoying person.

aggravation

• n. The act of aggravating, or making worse; used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity…
• n. Exaggerated representation.
• n. An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.

bait

• n. Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare,…
• n. Food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests.
• n. Anything which allures; a lure; enticement; temptation.
• n. A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.
• n. A light or hasty luncheon.
• v. (transitive) To attract with bait; to entice.
• v. (transitive) To affix bait to a trap or a fishing hook or fishing line.
• v. (transitive) To set dogs on (an animal etc.) to bite or worry; to attack with dogs, especially for sport.
• v. (transitive) To intentionally annoy, torment, or threaten by constant rebukes or threats; to harass.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To feed and water (a horse or other animal), especially during a journey.
• v. (intransitive) (of a horse or other animal) To take food, especially during a journey.
• v. (intransitive) (of a person) To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment during a journey.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops…

bemock

• v. (archaic) To ridicule or mock.
• v. (transitive) To mock repeatedly; flout.
• v. (transitive) To cause to appear as if mock or unreal; excel or surpass, as the genuine surpasses the counterfeit.

cod

• n. (obsolete) A small bag or pouch.
• n. (Britain, obsolete) A husk or integument; a pod.
• n. (now rare) The scrotum (also in plural).
• n. (obsolete or Britain dialectal, Scotland) A pillow or cushion.
• n. The Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua.
• n. The sea fish of the genus Gadus generally, as inclusive of the Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus)and Greenland…
• n. The sea fish of the family Gadidae which are sold as "cod", as haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) and…
• n. (informal, usually with qualifiers) Other unrelated fish which are similarly important to regional fisheries,…
• n. (informal, usually with qualifiers) Other unrelated fish which resemble the Atlantic cod, as the rock…
• n. A joke or an imitation.
• n. A stupid or foolish person.
• adj. Having the character of imitation; jocular. (now usually attributive, forming mostly compound adjectives).
• v. (slang, transitive, dialectal) To attempt to deceive or confuse.

irritation

• n. The act of irritating or annoying.
• n. The state of being irritated.
• n. The act of exciting, or the condition of being excited to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition…
• n. A condition of morbid excitability or oversensitiveness of an organ or part of the body; a state in which…

mock

• n. An imitation, usually of lesser quality.
• n. Mockery, the act of mocking.
• n. A practice exam set by an educating institution to prepare students for an important exam.
• v. To mimic, to simulate.
• v. To make fun of by mimicking, to taunt.
• v. To tantalise, and disappoint the hopes of.
• adj. Imitation, not genuine; fake.

provocation

• n. The act of provoking, inciting or annoying someone into doing something.
• n. Something that provokes; a provocative act.
• n. (emergency medicine) The second step in OPQRST regarding the investigation of what makes the symptoms…

rag

• n. (in the plural) Tattered clothes.
• n. A piece of old cloth; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred, a tatter.
• n. A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
• n. A ragged edge in metalworking.
• n. (nautical, slang) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
• n. (slang, pejorative) A newspaper, magazine.
• n. (poker) A poor, low-ranking kicker.
• v. (intransitive) To become tattered.
• n. A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
• v. To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
• v. To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
• v. To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
• v. (Britain slang) To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
• v. To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
• v. (music, obsolete) To add syncopation (to a tune) and thereby make it appropriate for a ragtime song.
• n. (dated) A prank or practical joke.
• n. (Britain, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
• n. (obsolete, US) An informal dance party featuring music played by African-American string bands.
• n. A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
• v. (transitive, informal) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To dance to ragtime music.

rally

• n. A demonstration; an event where people gather together to protest for or against a given cause.
• n. (squash (sport), table tennis, tennis, badminton) A sequence of strokes between serving and scoring a…
• n. (motor racing) An event in which competitors drive through a series of timed special stages at intervals…
• n. (business, trading) A recovery after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
• v. To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
• v. To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight;…
• v. To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate.
• v. (business, trading) To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
• v. To tease; to chaff good-humouredly.
• n. Good-humoured raillery.

razz

• n. (poker) A version of seven card stud where the worst poker hand wins (called lowball).
• v. (informal) To tease playfully; to heckle.
• v. (informal) (Newfoundland) To drive an automobile around.

ride

• v. (intransitive, transitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle…
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
• v. (transitive, chiefly US and South Africa) To transport (someone) in a vehicle.
• v. (intransitive) Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such…
• v. (intransitive) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).
• v. (intransitive) Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.
• v. (intransitive) To rely, depend (on).
• v. (intransitive) Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).
• v. (lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
• v. To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
• v. To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
• v. (surgery) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
• n. An instance of riding.
• n. (informal) A vehicle.
• n. An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
• n. A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
• n. (Britain) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
• n. (Britain, dialect, archaic) A saddle horse.
• n. (Ireland) A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.

simple

• adj. Uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added.
• adj. Without ornamentation; plain.
• adj. Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
• adj. Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
• adj. (now rare) Trivial; insignificant.
• adj. (now colloquial) Feeble-minded; foolish.
• adj. (heading, technical) Structurally uncomplicated.
• adj. (obsolete) Mere; not other than; being only.
• n. (medicine) A preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
• n. (obsolete) A term for a physician, derived from the medicinal term above.
• n. (logic) A simple or atomic proposition.
• n. (obsolete) Something not mixed or compounded.
• n. (weaving) A drawloom.
• n. (weaving) Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
• n. (Roman Catholicism) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To gather simples, i.e., medicinal herbs.

simpleton

• n. (pejorative) A simple person lacking common sense.

tantalise

• v. Alternative spelling of tantalize.

tantalize

• v. (transitive) to tease (someone) by offering something desirable but keeping it out of reach.
• v. (transitive) to bait (someone) by showing something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied.

taunt

• v. to make fun of (someone); to goad (a person) into responding, often in an aggressive manner.
• n. A scornful or mocking remark; a jeer or mockery.
• adj. (nautical) Very high or tall.

taunting

• v. present participle of taunt.
• n. The act of one who taunts.

tease

• v. To separate the fibres of a fibrous material.
• v. To comb (originally with teasels) so that the fibres all lie in one direction.
• v. To back-comb.
• v. (transitive) To poke fun at.
• v. (transitive) To provoke or disturb; to annoy.
• v. (transitive) To entice, to tempt.
• v. (transitive, informal) To show as forthcoming, in the manner of a teaser.
• n. One who teases.
• n. A single act of teasing.
• n. A cock tease; an exotic dancer; a stripper.

twerp

• n. (Britain, colloquial) A fool, a twit.
• n. (US, colloquial) A small or puny person; one regarded as insignificant, contemptible.
• n. (US, colloquial) A person who can be bullied playfully, or easily teased. Sometimes used as a pet-name…

twirp

• interj. An imitation of the sound of a bird or a horn.
• n. Alternative spelling of twerp.