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Definition: Twee |
TweeAdjective1. Affectedly dainty or refined. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: TweeSynonyms: dainty (adj), mincing (adj), niminy-piminy (adj), prim (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Twee |
| Non-English Usage: "Twee" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (two), Dutch (two), Flemish (two). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Ontbijt voor twee (1972) De Knecht van twee meesters (1970) Twee jongens en een oude auto (1969) Monoloog voor twee (1969) Twee broeders ry saam (1968) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Twee eeuwen farmacie : Groninger Museum. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| "Twee" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Twee" is used about 41 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 41 | 53,521 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "twee": twee-o, twee-wee-wee. | |
Ending with "twee": out-twee. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
twee | 18 |
belgen twee | 3 |
twee vandaag | 3 |
koffers twee vol | 2 |
twaalf twee voor | 2 |
douche meiden twee | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "twee"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сладичък, хубавичък. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | niedlich (appealing, cute, dinky, ducky, lovely, pretty, sweet), gekünstelt (affected, artificial, contrived, overelaborate, strained). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | csöpögős (gooey), érzelgős (corny, gooey, gushy, lyrical, maudlin, mushy, namby-pamby, sentimental, sickly, sloppy, slushy, to slobber over sy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eetway sensiblero (maudlin, mushy, sappy, sentimental, soppy, sugared, sugary), repipi (hoity toity, La-di-da), dulzón, amanerado (affected, camp, mannered), afectado (affected, artificial, camp, foppish, influenced, La-di-da, mincing, niminy-piminy, poseur, posh, precious, stilted, strained, studied, unnatural). (various references) tuhaf (antic, bizarre, comical, cranky, curious, droll, erratic, flaky, funnily, funny, funny peculiar, laughable, odd, offbeat, peculiar, peregrine, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwball, screwy, singular, splay, strange, unaccustomed, uncouth, unusual, weird, whimsical), fazla nazlı. (various references) витончений (airy, attic, bijou, choice, curious, dainty, delicate, elegant, fastidious, fine, lepid, nice, rarefied, refined, slender, slinky, subtile, subtle, super, zing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "twee": tweed, tweedier, tweediest, tweediness, tweedinesses, tweedle, tweedled, tweedles, tweedling, tweeds, tweedy, tween, tweenies, tweeny, tweet, tweeted, tweeter, tweeters, tweeting, tweets, tweeze, tweezed, tweezer, tweezers, tweezes, tweezing. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "twee": etwee. (additional references) | |
Words containing "twee": atween, between, betweenbrain, betweenbrains, betweenness, betweennesses, betweentimes, betweenwhiles, carpetweed, carpetweeds, etwees, knotweed, knotweeds, outweep, outweeping, outweeps, peetweet, peetweets, smartweed, smartweeds. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: weet. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-t-w" | |
-1 letter: ewe, tee, tew, wee, wet. | |
-2 letters: et, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-t-w" | |
+1 letter: etwee, rewet, sweet, tewed, tweed, tween, tweet, weest, weets. | |
+2 letters: atween, bewept, etwees, fewest, newest, peewit, pewter, rewets, stewed, sweets, towhee, townee, tweeds, tweedy, tweeny, tweets, tweeze, twelve, weeted, welted, welter, wester, wether, wetted, wetter. | |
+3 letters: bestrew, between, dewater, dewiest, entwine, lewdest, outweep, overwet, peewits, pewters, rewrite, rewrote, strewed, strewer, sweated, sweater, sweeten, sweeter, sweetie, sweetly, swelter, tarweed, teaware, thewier, toweled, towered, towhees, townees, tweaked, tweedle, tweeted, tweeter, tweezed, tweezer, tweezes, twelves, watered, waterer, wavelet, weakest, weather, webfeet, website, webster, weeting, welters, wergelt, western, westers, wethers, wetness, wetters, wettest, wetware, wheaten, whereat, whereto, whether, whetted, whetter, wreathe, wrested, wrester, wrestle. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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