Derogitary term, roughly equivalent to idiot. More insulting than berk, but less insulting that gimp.
Thought to originate in the Victorian Era meaning a lower-class foreigner
> You twonks, why didn't you use the laser cannon on the Esperanto?

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学英语单词
Abram's law
acoustic eavesdropping
agency bills
aggregate social capital
Allardville
anti-oedipus
appear out of the blue
assailments
Asset Redeployment
bastardies
Birds River
bond insurance
bureaucratic leader
butadiene-vinylpyridine latex
callosal apraxia
catalyzeo spraying
character-driven
chebyschev
chlorpicrin
cold-cathode digital displays
color bar dot crosshatch generator
colouredness
combined pipe tap and drill
commit-tees
cosmetologist
decompounded
difference of two squares
diffuse neuroendocrine system
directing sign
discontinuous crack
double series
entepicondyle foramen
eotetranychus orientalis
epithermal absorption
eye nerves
family Bombycillidae
fractionation precipitation
haemoglobinurias
hand hook
heiling
helical content
heremid
himals
hindelang
horseshoe maps
in this extreme exigence
Inhasan
Island County
isns
jaco
Kanouri
laminar flow in pipe
lattice gauge
ligg. intercostalia
Macropetalichthyidae
Maple View
membrane tank
miniaturation
misdescriptions
mohol
monetary multiplier
muscle tones
network technique
nitrogen arc welding
nondevelopmental
ocean engineering mechanics
osmondit
osseous rheumatism
Pavlovicha, Mys
pay for sth
PETW
pig sweat
postcard-size
princess consort
published price
Ramuse pharyngealis
regulatory authority
reroutes
roars of laughter
ruby copper
rudder bag
rural-urban dichotomy
Saudi Arabians
sclera (or sclerotic ossicle)
seat by number
semi manufactured goods
sight hole
sinecurists
slooshes
solenoid actuated relay(s)
sommier
squaw weed
Sullivan occlusion test
tactile spot
tawhid
traxx
uniform random variable
Uridinal
user interface node (ui node)
vacuum valve coupling circuit
vapie
youth and old age