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A stupid or person — but a small, harmless one. That is the key. You call someone a twerp when they irritate you, not when they you or when they have done something truly bad; it is the word for the boy who keeps kicking your seat, not for a criminal. Because of that smallness, it is much milder than most insults, almost affectable — parents say it to children, friends say it to each other. It is old-fashioned and mostly British, and it can sound gently comic now, the sort of word you meet in older books and children's stories. Usually 'you little twerp' or 'what a twerp'.
小笨蛋、討厭鬼（語氣輕，帶點好笑，罵小孩或朋友用）
組成Nobody is sure where it comes from. It appears as British slang around the 1910s. Tolkien once claimed a fellow Oxford student named T. W. Earp was 'the original twerp', but no evidence supports that. Other guesses include a shortening of Antwerp (a kind of racing pigeon), a bird-sound word, or Welsh twp meaning 'a fool'. Take all of these as stories, not facts.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
twerpnoun/twɝp/
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A fool, a twit.
- Now you've broken it, you twerp!
- There's many an airman just finishin' his time. There's many a twerp signing on.
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A small or puny person; one regarded as insignificant, contemptible.
- Get out of my way, you little twerp!
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A person who can be bullied playfully, or easily teased. Sometimes used as a pet-name (often for a younger sibling).
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。