low. Obs. Also 8 twait. [Of obscure origin.] (See quot. 1727.)
Erroneously used (after quot. 1660) by Browning, Pippa Passes, IV. ii. 96, under the impression that it denoted some part of a nun’s attire.
1656. R. Fletcher, trans. Martial, II. xliv. 104.
| Give not male names then to such things as thine, | |
| But think thou hast two Twats ô wife of mine. |
1660. Vanity of Vanities, 50. They talk’t of his having a Cardinalls Hat, They’d send him as soon an Old Nuns Twat.
a. 1704. T. Brown, Sober Slip in Dark, Wks. 1711, IV. 182. A dang’rous Street, Where Stones and Twaits in frosty Winters meet.
1719. D’Urfey, Pills, 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. |
1727. Bailey, vol. II., Twat, pudendum muliebre. Twat-scowerer, a Surgeon or Doctor. E. Ward.
