Verboticism: Rapiertwit

'Crap! Crap!'

DEFINITION: To be so obsessed with your own cleverness and wittiness that you don't listen to what anyone else is saying, let alone understand them.

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Rapiertwit

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: ray-pee-uhr-twit

Sentence: I had just told Bob that his cat had died and expected him to be upset, but he was such a rapiertwit that he began making dead cat jokes.

Etymology: rapier wit, twit

Points: 449

Comments: Rapiertwit

galwaywegian - 2007-07-06: 05:48:00
twit to who?

petaj - 2007-07-06: 08:47:00
Say bah! Foiled again in my epeenion.

Jabberwocky - 2007-07-06: 13:24:00
I think Bob was a rapiershit to make dead cat jokes. That does say crap crap in the cartoon though - hmmm