Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Overly precious or nice.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
étui. Planché , p. 183.
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- adjective UK, pejorative Overly
quaint ,dainty ,cute ornice .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective affectedly dainty or refined
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
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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.
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Yes, Juno's twee, and that's annoying, and no, twee is not the argument against that stupid flick that I want to push.
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Yes, Juno's twee, and that's annoying, and no, twee is not the argument against that stupid flick that I want to push.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
wordlover42 commented on the word twee
love this word
June 20, 2009
crysb commented on the word twee
Twee-pop, a very happy genre of music indeed.
August 9, 2009
alexz commented on the word twee
Elmer Fudd'ish for Tree
February 19, 2013