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Word: twerps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...Chiromys daubeutonia) is one type of the little, twerp-faced lemurs of France's Madagascar, remarkable for the fact that the third finger on each hand is preternaturally long and slim for delicately picking up caterpillars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Paradise Lost | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...twerp, as Reader Propes should know without dictionary-thumbing, is a small, pretentious, ineffective and unpleasant person whose mode of self-expression falls between a twitter and a chirp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 20, 1936 | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

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