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[ twee ] / twi /
adjective Chiefly British.affectedly dainty or quaint: twee writing about furry little creatures. Origin of twee1900–05; apparently reduced from tweet (perhaps via pronunciation twiʔ), mimicking child's pronunciation of sweet Words nearby tweetwattle, T wave, twayblade, tweak, tweaker, twee, tweed, Tweeddale, tweedle, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Tweedsmuir Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for tweeMurdoch is proud of the end product, no matter how many find it “twee”…whatever that means. Stuart Murdoch's 'God Help the Girl' Does Something Pretty (and Something Twee)|Melissa Leon|September 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST I have spent an hour on the phone with Marc Spitz, the author of Twee, having him explain Twee. What the Hell Is ‘Twee’? A Genre? A Mindset? An Art Form?|Scott Porch|June 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Lost in Translation are Twee. What the Hell Is ‘Twee’? A Genre? A Mindset? An Art Form?|Scott Porch|June 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST In a sense, all vintage toys are Twee, but I have a personal distaste for Legos that I cannot explain. What the Hell Is ‘Twee’? A Genre? A Mindset? An Art Form?|Scott Porch|June 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I wanted something that connects Walt Disney and J.D. Salinger and Buddy Holly and Sylvia Plath to what we now know as Twee. What the Hell Is ‘Twee’? A Genre? A Mindset? An Art Form?|Scott Porch|June 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST You stand up there against the twee, and I'll make good shots. A Little Mother to the Others|L. T. Meade I can't remember at all about the funny water and the twee with the flowers, and all of it. The Golden Scarecrow|Hugh Walpole It was the year when "devey," and "twee," and similar abbreviations first became fashionable. The Dop Doctor|Clotilde Inez Mary Graves It must have been "devey" and "twee" to have gone through all those experiences. The Dop Doctor|Clotilde Inez Mary Graves Its voice is as homely as its appearance—a harsh but plaintive twee, twee, twee. A Bird Calendar for Northern India|Douglas Dewar
British Dictionary definitions for twee
adjectiveBritish excessively sentimental, sweet, or pretty Derived forms of tweetweely, adverbtweeness, nounWord Origin for tweeC19: from tweet, mincing or affected pronunciation of sweet Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |