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big yankee | 08:36 Tue 03rd Jun 2003 | Phrases & Sayings
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Where does the word twerp come from?
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The origin is uncertain, though there is a suggestion that it may be related to a T W Earp, once President of the Oxford University Union. He presumably was a despicable/objectionable person.
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Thank you qm apu
My Stepfather, always maintained that twerp was the name for a pregnant stickleback! Why, I know not. In the clear view of my adulthood, his thesis seems fundamentally flawed. I'd go for the Oxford answer.

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