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#70094 05/16/02 07:53 PM
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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.


#70096 05/16/02 09:12 PM
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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".

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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 between.


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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.



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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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