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I was reading a long article about Tolkien, and ran across this: what is "tweeness:?
... the un-Tolkien-like tweeness of JK Rowling's coinages ...
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To this USn it brings to mind coyness or cuteness, but let's see what our cross-ponders have to say.
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Howye fokes
I bit me tongue yesterday, ya know and had a small prob with me speech.
Anyways, re "tweeness" - this may not be the exact meanen - but I'd say it's akin ta "cheesy".
Be seein ya GT
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Twee is cutesy - but not baby-cute, more try-hard-pathetic cute [dare I mention Britney Spears??] ... it's also pretty close to kitch, being a goody-goody, all those fairly derogatory things.
If the quote at the bottom of your post, bill, is the place you originally got it - i would have to agree and say that's a pretty good understanding of the word!
gandalf beats harry any day
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"Twee" is certainly a word I know and use - I was brought up by English grandparents and they mostly used it in the phrase "prim and twee". To us it has less of a "cute" connotation, rather a kind of stuffy (?proper) prissyness.
Mind you - I have never seen tweeness before.
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Zooty (sorry! )--nice to see you! A few months ago, somebody here, and I'm thinking it was Bingley, said that he (?) was brought up where twee was supposed to be baby-talk for sweet--as in so overly-cute/sweet it makes you sick. I gave up on Searching, after hitting three posts that gave me be tween.
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I had a friend at one time who always referred to the "tweeosity factor", usually used in reference to things like period drama, blue rinses, twin sets and pearls, that kind of thing.
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Many a cute little bird is born into tweeness.
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twee does mean cutesy but in a very grannyish and prim sense. lace doilies, ornaments, anything home counties or olde-worlde.
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Would twee be akin to quaint?
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