twitty
Silly, foolish, ineffectual.
Adjective
- Silly, foolish, ineffectual.
- twit fool, lame person, loser | Heʼs such a twit; he always crank-calls me! [C450 1920s British: ‘trivial idiot’] → twitty having the characteristics of a twit - [1989, Pamela Munro, “Tt”, in Slang U.: The Official...
- Nervous.
- To spend a day with the Hendersons — if you’re like me — would usually end up in your becoming gradually and gently twitty. Twitty is the English vernacular for nervous or clownish. - 1996, John Byrell, Lairs, Urgers...
Synonyms: clownish
Origin
From twit[face] (“a fool, an idiot”, noun) + -y (adjectival suffix). First attested in 1989 (sense 1).