A modification of [twat], (literaly, little twat) used as an insult, and is useful when an extra sylable is needed in an amusing poem or suchlike.
> My heavens, isn't Mary and Jimmy's boy a twattock?
> Yes, but what did you expect from those two?

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学英语单词
abscess of lung
acokantheras
akce
animal-sized
answerde
as tight as a tick
avaling
avizandum
bad luck to you
banistering
Bengal light
box scores
bulk order
BURRAMYIDAE
business structure
bye passby level broaching machine
cage platform
Calidris canutus
cardiastethus exiguus
cartonniers
cinematographers
circumscribled triangle
claim surveying agent
clunches
coil curl
coiler stand
compression of the earth
computer panel
contact kinase
continuous registration
contour mark
coplanarity of orbits
coring drilling with long core barrel
designer-name
diffraction analysis
dose-rate meter
drill footage per month
fibrillin-2
film coefficients
flock after
genital mutilation
glucolipid(e)
grey receiver
Gritti's amputation
Heteroscelus incanus
hole plate for diversion
hyperform
initial profile
irrationals
ivy-grown
jolly as a sandboy
Kleine-Levin syndrome
land transformation
lead-out
leak stopping
leap to mind
Lovlya
mambrane tension
marble's reagent
meat grinders
Merauke
mid-chord line
myrsinites
natural boundary condition
net positive suction height
neufville
nitrous oxide anesthesia
nonstoried wood
North, Christopher
one-cover-coat ware
oven mit
paramount right
petross
pneumatic stapler for metallic mesh
politick
procuratorate general
pseudo conjunction
radicular retainer
recessed square
rencontres
Rhododendron lapponicum
rotaviruss
self idolatry
settles on
slapping with
smallest ideal
spectator
stereoscopists
stoker engine
strapworts
Takatomi
taken our eyes off
telefan
there's no use
twiddled
USFJ
verbarnd
water scrubber
Whale Head
when you believe
without the benefit of
work someone up