Word.ws English Dictionary

knife twister

knife twister noun: one who "twists the knife", i.e. one who is cruel or who exacerbates a situation.

Noun

knife twister (plural knife twisters)

  1. One who "twists the knife", i.e. one who is cruel or who exacerbates a situation.
    • So Kathy wasn't abusing her daughter. I really was just a cruel knife-twister in her eyes. Not a good feeling.2017, Sherri Smith, Follow Me Down

Forms of knife twister

pluralknife twisters
alternative formknife-twister

Origin of knife twister

From knife + twister.

Questions about knife twister

What does knife twister mean?
Knife twister means one who "twists the knife", i.e. one who is cruel or who exacerbates a situation.
What part of speech is knife twister?
Knife twister is a noun.
What is the plural of knife twister?
The plural of knife twister is knife twisters.

Words near knife twister in the dictionary

  1. knife switch
  2. knife switches
  3. knife thrower
  4. knife throwers
  5. knife trick
  6. knife twister
  7. knife twisters
  8. knife up
  9. knife urn
  10. knife urns
  11. knife wand

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: knife twister (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-knife twister.wav.

Cite this entry: “knife twister.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/knife_twister. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.