Well? Is it?
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8176194.stm

I reckon it's all in the inflection and context.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Thu 30 Jul 2009, 14:48, 9 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Nonono
It's "Thwaite".
(Slip Digby is a meat puppet, Thu 30 Jul 2009, 14:50, Reply)

Hmm
lets see... would the kind of people who post here find twat offensive? I'm going to go with probably the cunting fuck not
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 30 Jul 2009, 14:52, Reply)

OMG I'M SO OFFENDED!

(Slip Digby is a meat puppet, Thu 30 Jul 2009, 14:53, Reply)

*cunts you in the fuck*

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 30 Jul 2009, 14:53, Reply)

Yeah, that's true for us.
But what about normal people we know?

Bollox. Forget it.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Thu 30 Jul 2009, 14:54, Reply)

"normal people"?
I don't understand
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 30 Jul 2009, 14:54, Reply)

Hence the hastily added bollox.

(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Thu 30 Jul 2009, 15:01, Reply)

My mum once called my sister a twat by mistake, instead of twit.
I've never laughed so much in my life at the look of horror on my mum's face when she realised.
( girlinthehole, Thu 30 Jul 2009, 14:54, Reply)

nope
means the same as cunt, but slightly less vulgar.

it's a great word though, one of my favourites. I wet myself with laughter first time I heard it on TV.

was on Fist of Fun I think, a sketch about an ant and a man. the ant worked hard and prepared for winter while the man buggered about. finished up with the man doing ok, and the ant not. man turns to ant and says "ant. you are a twat"
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 30 Jul 2009, 14:54, Reply)