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Definition of twee in English: tweeadjectivetweer, tweest twiːtwi British Excessively or affectedly quaint, pretty, or sentimental. 〈英，主贬〉过于奇巧的；过分鲜丽的；过分感伤的 although the film's a bit twee, it's watchable 尽管这部电影有些过分感伤，但还可看。 Example sentencesExamples - The presumption people have when they see a toile is that it's going to be full of shepherdesses leading sheep up garden paths and they expect it to be rather on the twee side.
- The designs are quirky and the techniques innovative, distinguishing them from the twee associations that craft and knitwear often suffer from.
- The shops are twee and cute and sell a million varieties of soap; you could browse for a lifetime upgrading your T-shirt collection.
- I didn't want to make nice, twee little paintings.
- The one ride I know that is incredibly twee and sweet is called ‘Its a Small World’.
- ‘It is the the most twee and vulgar thing I have ever seen in my life,’ he said.
- It just sounds too twee, too English, too old-fashioned.
- I thought when I first started the book that this mechanism was going to make it a bit twee, and perhaps repetitive and dull, but this is absolutely not the case.
- Structure-wise it's incredibly flawed, the climax is rushed, the middle is confused, and the beginning is painfully twee.
- Disturbingly, it's from some twee site devoted to British Sixties culture…
- Not all of them will convert into nice twee homes.
- But don't assume that open wood and peat-burning fires translate into twee and chintzy cosiness.
- Cosy can mean both warm and comforting or irritatingly twee and conventional, even sentimental and kitsch: the German gemtlich.
- It felt twee and tried to be overly sentimental which didn't work because I didn't feel any closeness towards any of the characters.
- By another strange twist of fortune, sweets seem to be creeping up - market again with the recent flowering of twee shops on heritage high streets.
- There is a clear affinity between actor and character that spills over into the sunny nature of a film that could so easily have seemed twee or sugar-coated.
- However I'm conscious of not wanting to sound twee, and I'd been practicing every night so I felt really prepared to do my own thing.
- I mean, come on: this was going to be some insufferably twee tale about the friendship between two feisty old biddies.
- The restaurant is spacious and pretty without being twee and the adjoining low-ceilinged pub is comfy, cosy and welcoming.
- It's this cavalcade of architectural styles, all stopping around 1850, that the critics deride for being twee.
Synonyms quaint, sweet, bijou, dainty, pretty, pretty-pretty informal cute, cutesy sentimental, over-sentimental, mawkish, affected, precious British informal soppy
Derivativesadverb British The Tea room is a converted farm out - building which has a terrace outside and a rather tweely decorated interior. Example sentencesExamples - Even more vomit-inducing is a particularly distressing variant of the little yellow sign that proudly but tweely proclaims ‘Small Person On Board’.
- But they were tweely sweet and in keeping with the old world charm of Hertford.
- As an English viewer, I may be being oversensitive in pointing out the embarrassment potential for silly titles and tweely humorous programme notes, but having learned the disadvantages of such gestures in the long run I feel duty bound to be boringly pedantic on the subject.
- It is 2.30 pm on Saturday, and I am almost at the front of one of six queues bearing down on what is rather tweely called the ‘refreshments’ counter under the Holte End at Villa Park, Birmingham.
noun British Every detail of the plot reeks of tweeness, and the score never quite decides whether it is intended as a fairy-tale operetta or a light-hearted musical. Example sentencesExamples - But the truth is the castle has a grandeur that surpasses its tartan tweeness.
- More to the point, there was none of the provincial tweeness I had expected to find, only a bright but welcoming interior and a menu that made the mouth water.
- The tiny hotel, technically a ‘restaurant with rooms’ as it has only five of them, is a haven of oak-beamed loveliness without an ounce of tweeness to spoil it.
- This is, give-or-take some tweeness, an excellent production.
OriginEarly 20th century: representing a child's pronunciation of sweet. A child's pronunciation of sweet, recorded from the first decade of the 20th century. Originally twee was as complimentary as sweet, now it is intended as an insult, meaning ‘excessively or affectedly quaint, pretty, or sentimental’.
Rhymesabsentee, açai, addressee, adoptee, agree, allottee, amputee, appellee, appointee, appraisee, après-ski, assignee, asylee, attendee, bailee, bain-marie, Bangui, bargee, bawbee, be, Bea, bee, bootee, bouquet garni, bourgeoisie, Brie, BSc, buckshee, Capri, cc, chimpanzee, cohabitee, conferee, consignee, consultee, Cree, debauchee, decree, dedicatee, Dee, degree, deportee, dernier cri, detainee, devisee, devotee, divorcee, draftee, dree, Dundee, dungaree, eau-de-vie, emcee, employee, endorsee, en famille, ennui, enrollee, escapee, esprit, evacuee, examinee, expellee, fee, fiddle-de-dee, flea, flee, fleur-de-lis, foresee, franchisee, free, fusee (US fuzee), Gardaí, garnishee, gee, ghee, glee, goatee, grandee, Grand Prix, grantee, Guarani, guarantee, he, HMRC, indictee, inductee, internee, interviewee, invitee, jamboree, Jaycee, jeu d'esprit, key, knee, Lea, lee, legatee, Leigh, lessee, Ley, licensee, loanee, lychee, manatee, Manichee, maquis, Marie, marquee, me, Midi, mortgagee, MSc, nominee, obligee, Otomi, parolee, Parsee, parti pris, patentee, Pawnee, payee, pea, pee, permittee, plc, plea, pledgee, pollee, presentee, promisee, quay, ratatouille, referee, refugee, releasee, repartee, retiree, returnee, rupee, scot-free, scree, sea, secondee, see, settee, Shanxi, Shawnee, shchi, she, shea, si, sirree, ski, spree, standee, suttee, tant pis, tea, tee, tee-hee, Tennessee, testee, the, thee, three, thuggee, Tiree, Torquay, trainee, Tralee, transferee, tree, Trincomalee, trustee, tutee, Twi, undersea, vestee, vis-à-vis, wagon-lit, Waikiki, warrantee, we, wee, whee, whoopee, ye, yippee, Zuider Zee Definition of twee in US English: tweeadjectivetwitwē British Excessively or affectedly quaint, pretty, or sentimental. 〈英，主贬〉过于奇巧的；过分鲜丽的；过分感伤的 although the film's a bit twee, it's watchable 尽管这部电影有些过分感伤，但还可看。 Example sentencesExamples - The one ride I know that is incredibly twee and sweet is called ‘Its a Small World’.
- I thought when I first started the book that this mechanism was going to make it a bit twee, and perhaps repetitive and dull, but this is absolutely not the case.
- The designs are quirky and the techniques innovative, distinguishing them from the twee associations that craft and knitwear often suffer from.
- It just sounds too twee, too English, too old-fashioned.
- Structure-wise it's incredibly flawed, the climax is rushed, the middle is confused, and the beginning is painfully twee.
- The shops are twee and cute and sell a million varieties of soap; you could browse for a lifetime upgrading your T-shirt collection.
- It's this cavalcade of architectural styles, all stopping around 1850, that the critics deride for being twee.
- The restaurant is spacious and pretty without being twee and the adjoining low-ceilinged pub is comfy, cosy and welcoming.
- ‘It is the the most twee and vulgar thing I have ever seen in my life,’ he said.
- There is a clear affinity between actor and character that spills over into the sunny nature of a film that could so easily have seemed twee or sugar-coated.
- I mean, come on: this was going to be some insufferably twee tale about the friendship between two feisty old biddies.
- I didn't want to make nice, twee little paintings.
- By another strange twist of fortune, sweets seem to be creeping up - market again with the recent flowering of twee shops on heritage high streets.
- Cosy can mean both warm and comforting or irritatingly twee and conventional, even sentimental and kitsch: the German gemtlich.
- It felt twee and tried to be overly sentimental which didn't work because I didn't feel any closeness towards any of the characters.
- Not all of them will convert into nice twee homes.
- But don't assume that open wood and peat-burning fires translate into twee and chintzy cosiness.
- The presumption people have when they see a toile is that it's going to be full of shepherdesses leading sheep up garden paths and they expect it to be rather on the twee side.
- Disturbingly, it's from some twee site devoted to British Sixties culture…
- However I'm conscious of not wanting to sound twee, and I'd been practicing every night so I felt really prepared to do my own thing.
Synonyms quaint, sweet, bijou, dainty, pretty, pretty-pretty sentimental, over-sentimental, mawkish, affected, precious
OriginEarly 20th century: representing a child's pronunciation of sweet. |