Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Chiefly British Overly precious or nice.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as étui. Planché, p. 183.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- adj. affectedly dainty or refined
Etymologies
- From a childish pronunciation of sweet. The Oxford English Dictionary records the first use in 1905 in Punch. (Wiktionary)
- Alteration of tweet, baby-talk alteration of sweet. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“For example, when you are in babel's dutch language mode you can write twee "en in which" is a trema, which is not equivalent to twee\ "en, which is then (actually always) specifically an umlaut.”
“Yes, Juno's twee, and that's annoying, and no, twee is not the argument against that stupid flick that I want to push.”
“This audio labor of love for longtime friends Curt Kentner and Mark Rothkopf is built upon a deep-rooted love for the music-primarily anchored to the genre of indie pop, or the slightly less complimentary tag of "twee" - they've released over these past 10 years.”
“WARD: The English have a word, twee, which is hard to define, but once you've been exposed to it, you know it when you hear it.”
“Facing each other, marked out by enclosures of wires, keyboards, desks, assorted electronics, James Cargill and Trish Keenan begin building up a set of serious guile, the competent accretion of a decade's thoughtful knob twiddling and psychedelic exploration that has seen them move from what could almost be called a twee band, a mid-90s Warp oddity, to a fully fledged experimental outifit.”
“If they used to be called twee, they now ally their simple catchy pop with a power that sees them take on Ash on their own territory and win.”
“Anyone with an allergy to what the British call twee might have started to itch about then.”
“And did you know, the word 'twee' in English, which means overly-cutesy, is the Dutch word for 'two'?”
“You can take a hipster out of Brooklyn, but you can't take the "twee" out of "tweed.”
“It's not an epic fantasy, but neither is it the kind of twee and fairy-riddled work the synopsis or its reputation as a 'woodland fantasy' suggests.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘twee’.
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phrontistery-t
from phrontistery.info
tabacosis, tabanid, tabaret, tabati?re, tabby, tabefaction, tabellary, tabellion, tabernacle, tabernacular, tabescent, tabific and 930 more...
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Bike Snob'isms
words I saw while reading the Bike Snob
helment, scranus, podium, sangue borse, hipster, dandydom, effete, douchebag, douchebags, Lobweh, Portland, brakeless track bike and 320 more...
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UK - slang
chin wag, arse about, bollock, starkers, sweet Fanny Adams, skive, shufti, codswallop, rhyming slang, bollocks, nookie, skew-whiff and 208 more...
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New words
new words or spelling issues
voluble, Metagrobolize, salubrious, calumny, fugacity, withdrawal, bourse, hypertrophy, leitmotif, argot, improvident, damask and 238 more...
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Musikgenres
indietronic, shoegaze, antifolk, freak-folk, dance punk, dubstep, indie, electro, house, minimalist, underground, drum'n'base and 74 more...
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The Fantastic Chiliastic
chiliastic, hapax legomenon, anosognosia, jactitation, infundibular, twee, callipygian, tintinnabulation, prestidigitation, anhedonia, coprolalia, parapraxis and 15 more...
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Kalli's Words
redundant, munchkin, escapade, natch, boom, fap, geek, nocturnal, pedantic, tactile, conversant, oxymoron and 188 more...
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bilby's Words
pandemic, whirl, guffaw, ethereal, feisty, dunt, ephemeral, pule, flipergebet, prink, maunder, gammon and 1023 more...
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Quirkstyle
Fashion elegance, oddities, styles, and cool garments.
tatterdemalion, froufrou, gingham, argyle, corset, hoop skirt, pantaloons, bloomers, jaunty, seersucker, twill, ganguro and 126 more...
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thekatespanos's list
pomposity, gaggle, scintilla, lemming, bilk, vanquish, conflate, plenary, verisimilitude, perspicacious, rattletrap, obdurate and 325 more...
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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1402 more...
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lagniappe
syzygy, bloviate, lagniappe, laconic, condign, umbrage, susurrus, thaumaturgy, capacious, capitulate, glower, repast and 179 more...
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chairmanK's list
eristic, eidetic, reticular, legshow, phytomorphic, ophidian, autumnal, frisson, rhizomatic, pulchritude, lubricious, veridical and 110 more...
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ElRojo
R. Peter Jackson's list
cantillation, jackstaff, pullulate, whoremonger, colloquy, batman, anathema, idiosyncratic, facilitation, sympathy, empathy, satrap and 135 more...
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The Collection
A somewhat discriminatory list of words and phrases collected for their euphonic or arcane appeal, interesting etymology, or concise definition of an otherwise unnamed phenomenon or concept.
ziggurat, neophilia, sucker punch, soporific, epoch, tundra, fiat, idiotproof, miscellany, metaphysics, cryptozoology, dysphoria and 850 more...
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theinfonaut's Words
pithy, voraciousness, aphorism, crumple, flaneur, coquettish, grace, discriminating, oscillation, assumption, nasturtium, petiole and 90 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for twee.

alexz Elmer Fudd'ish for Tree
Feb 19, 2013
crysb Twee-pop, a very happy genre of music indeed. Aug 9, 2009
wordlover42 love this word Jun 19, 2009