Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as two.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • obsolete Two; twain.

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  • noun archaic Two.

Etymologies

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Old English twēġe, reduced form of twēġen ("twain").

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Examples

  • And in tway is torn my heart and O pine I’m doomed to bear

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Time falsed our Union and divided who were one in tway;

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • First, the spelling variant: "tway," whether we like it or not, is a spelling introduced in the first English trade edition of 1937, the only edition in Joyce's lifetime which, as bibliographic scrutiny has ascertained (though Dr. Kidd would insinuate that such work to support the editing was not undertaken) incorporates authorial corrections.

    'The Scandal of Ulysses': An Exchange Adams, Robert M. 1988

  • No, the "tway" correction, together with other significant changes, helps to substantiate the interpretation of the bibliographic evidence.

    'The Scandal of Ulysses': An Exchange Adams, Robert M. 1988

  • We are then left with two examples: a spelling ( "tway" as against "twey") and a complex substantive reading ” the only example, except for two of the name forms, to touch at all upon the words of Ulysses.

    'The Scandal of Ulysses': An Exchange Adams, Robert M. 1988

  • Joyce himself corrected the text. since he did so, the edited text incorporates the forms he employed in 1937 as his latest choices ” even though for the first and only time he spelled "tway," not "twey."

    'The Scandal of Ulysses': An Exchange Adams, Robert M. 1988

  • I'm gonna go with Twazr on this one (as tway-zer).

    Grab your Gritter (or Twazr) for the Irish blog awards 2007

  • Shinfine deed in the myrtle of the bog tway fainmain stod op to slog, free bond men lay lurkin on.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Let flee me fiacckles, says the grand old mano-ark, stormcrested crowcock and undulant hair, hoodies tway!

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Watchers tway there walk, white sisters in ward sleepless.

    Ulysses 2003

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