Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word twist. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in twist.
Definitions and meaning of twist
twist
Etymology
From Middle Englishtwist, from Old English*twist, in compounds (e.g. mæsttwist(“a rope; stay”), candeltwist(“a wick”)), from Proto-Germanic*twistaz, a derivative of *twi-(“two-”) (compare also twine, between, betwixt).
Related to Saterland Frisian Twist(“discord”), Dutch twist(“twist; strife; discord”), German Low German Twist(“strife; discord”), German Zwist(“turmoil; strife; discord”), Swedish tvist(“quarrel; dispute”), Icelandic tvistur(“deuce”).
The verb is from Middle Englishtwisten. Compare Dutchtwisten, Danishtviste(“to dispute”), Swedishtvista(“to argue; dispute”).
Pronunciation
enPR: twĭst, IPA(key): /twɪst/, [tw̥ɪst]
Rhymes: -ɪst
Noun
twist (countable and uncountable, pluraltwists)
A twisting force.
Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
The form given in twisting.
The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
1808–1810, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, page 140:
I was one morning walking arm in arm with him in St James's Park, his dress then being […] waistcoat and breeches of the same blue satin, trimmed with silver twistà la hussarde, and ermine edges.
A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
A distortion to the meaning of a passage or word.
An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
2007 September 7, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 3:
Roy: Oh no, now I know there's a twist. I'm gonna spend the whole film guessing what it is. Damn you, Dominator! / Moss: Just try and forget that there's a twist. / Roy: Oh, how can you forget there's a twist?... / Douglas: Oh, I've heard of this flick. There's a twist in it, isn't there?... I bet he's a woman, that bloke. No, you think it's the future, but it's actually set in the past. It's not Earth. It's all a dream!... They're all clones. He's his own brother. Everyone's a ghost.
(preceded by definite article) A modern dance popular in Western culture in the late 1950s and 1960s, based on rotating the hips repeatedly from side to side. See Twist (dance) on Wikipedia for more details.
A rotation of the body when diving.
A sprain, especially to the ankle.
(obsolete) A twig.
(slang) A girl, a woman.
1990, Miller's Crossing, 01:08:20
(Dane, speaking about a woman character) "I'll see where the twist flops"
A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape.
(countable, uncountable) A small roll of tobacco.
A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
(obsolete, slang) A beverage made of brandy and gin.
A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
(slang, archaic) An appetite for food.
Short for hair twist.
Descendants
German: Twist
Translations
Verb
twist (third-person singular simple presenttwists, present participletwisting, simple past and past participletwisted)
To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
To join together by twining one part around another.
To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
June 8, 1714, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift
twisting it into a serpentine form.
To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
(reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.
Avarice twists itself into all human concerns.
To turn a knob etc.
To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
(intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
(transitive) To cause to rotate.
(intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
(transitive) To coax.
(card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
Antonyms
(antonym(s) of "in blackjack, be dealt another card"):: stick; stay
Translations
Derived terms
Anagrams
twits, witts
Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from Englishtwist.
Noun
twistm inan
twist(dance)
Declension
Further reading
twist in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
twist in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Etymology
From Englishtwist.
Pronunciation
Rhymes: -ɪst
Noun
twistm (uncountable, diminutivetwistjen)
strife, discord
dispute
twist: dance, turn
Derived terms
redetwist
twistappel
Anagrams
witst
Finnish
Etymology
From Englishtwist.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈtwist/, [ˈt̪wis̠t]
IPA(key): /ˈtʋist/, [ˈt̪ʋis̠t]
Rhymes: -ist
Syllabification(key): twist
Noun
twist
twist (dance)
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
“twist”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Englishtwist.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /twist/
Noun
twistm (pluraltwists)
twist(dance)
Derived terms
twister
Further reading
“twist”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
Alternative forms
twest, tweste, twiste, twyst, twyste
Etymology
From Old English*twist (attested in compounds), from Proto-West Germanic*twist, from Proto-Germanic*twistaz.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /twist/
Noun
twist (pluraltwistes)
The flat part of a hinge (less specifically the entire hinge)
A twig or branch.
A groin (juncture between the chest and thighs)
Derived terms
twisten
Descendants
English: twist
Scots: twist
References
“twist, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Englishtwist.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /twist/
Rhymes: -ist
Syllabification: twist
Noun
twistm animal
twist(type of dance)
(music)twist(music to this dance)
twist(beverage made of brandy and gin)
jar with a threaded neck and a screw cap allowing airtight sealing
screw cap for this type of jar
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
twist in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Englishtwist.
Pronunciation
Noun
twistm (uncountable)
twist(type of dance)
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Englishtwist or Frenchtwist.
Noun
twistn (pluraltwisturi)
twist(dance)
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Englishtwist.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈtwist/[ˈt̪wist̪]
Rhymes: -ist
Noun
twistm (pluraltwists)
twist(clarification of this definition is needed)
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
“twist”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014