Re: Parseltongue
| From: | Tim May <butsuri@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 9, 2002, 22:46 |
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Padraic Brown writes:
> --- Jeffrey Henning <Jeffrey@...> wrote:
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> > but it was so twee I gave
>
> Er. What is "twee"? I knew a girl named Twee, but
> I've never heard of the word otherwise.
>
My condolences to her.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 [wn]:
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| twee
| adj : affectedly dainty or refined [syn: {dainty}, {mincing},
| {niminy-piminy}, {prim}]
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From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language
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|twee
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|[...]
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|ADJECTIVE:
|Chiefly British Overly precious or nice.
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|ETYMOLOGY:
|Alteration of tweet, baby-talk alteration of sweet.
From the New Oxford Dictionary of English
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|twee > adjective (tweer, tweest) <Brit, chiefly derogatory>
|excessively or affectedly quaint, pretty, or sentimental: _although
|the film's a bit twee, it's watchable_
|-DERIVATIVES tweely adverb, tweeness noun
|-ORIGIN early 20th cent.: representing a child's pronunciation of
|sweet
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