different between twee vs tweep

English

Etymology

From a childish pronunciation of sweet. The Oxford English Dictionary records the first use in 1905 in Punch.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /twi?/
• Rhymes: -i?

Adjective

twee (comparative more twee or tweer, superlative most twee or tweest)

1. (Britain, derogatory) Overly quaint, dainty, cute or nice.

   Those Beatrix Potter animals are a little twee for my taste.

Synonyms

• cutesy (US)
• precious
• saccharine
• syrupy

Related terms

• twee pop

Anagrams

• ewte, weet

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

• twé (obsolete)

Etymology

From Dutch twee, from Middle Dutch twee, twe, from Old Dutch tw?, neuter form of tw?ne, from Proto-West Germanic *twai-, from Proto-Germanic *twai, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tv???/, /tve?/

Numeral

twee

1. two

Anagrams

• weet

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?e?/
• Hyphenation: twee
• Rhymes: -e?

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch twêe, from Old Dutch tw?, neuter form of tw?ne, from Proto-West Germanic *twai-, from Proto-Germanic *twai, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh?i.

Numeral

twee

1. two

Derived terms

• tweebaans
• tweehonderd
• tweetal
• tweetalig
• tweetallig
• tweebenig

Descendants

• Afrikaans: twee

Etymology 2

Noun

twee f (plural tweeën, diminutive tweetje n)

1. two

Anagrams

• weet
• wete

Low German

Alternative forms

• twei (Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch)

Etymology

From Middle Low German twê, from Old Saxon twene (“two”).

Numeral

twee

1. two

Coordinate terms

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch tw?, neuter form of tw?ne, from Proto-West Germanic *twai-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /twe?/

Numeral

twêe

1. two

Descendants

• Dutch: twee
• Limburgish: twei, twieë
• Zealandic: tweê

Further reading

• “twee”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “twee”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Plautdietsch

Etymology

From Middle Low German twê, from Old Saxon twene (“two”).

Numeral

twee

1. two, twain

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i?p

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Noun

tweep (plural tweeps)

1. A chirp or beep.
   • 1995, John Wynne, The Listener's Guide to Audio Books: Reviews, Recommendations, and Listings for More Than 2,000 Titles, Fireside (1995), ?ISBN, page 321:

     The readers are Star Trek cast members, and the sound is enhanced with authentic, Enterprise-sounding beeps and tweeps.

   • 2008, Eric W. Bragg, The Midnight Blade of Sonic Honey, Oyster Moon Press (2008), ?ISBN, page 106:

     Many of the neighboring birds had already begun their preliminary chirps, sending out those quirky little twits and tweeps that announce their presence […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:tweep.

Verb

tweep (third-person singular simple present tweeps, present participle tweeping, simple past and past participle tweeped)

1. To chirp or beep.
   • 1996, Lauraine Snelling, A New Day Rising, Bethany House Publishers (1996), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:

     A bird tweeped and twittered on a thistle by the side of the trail.

   • 1999, Laura Kalpakian, Steps and Exes: A Novel of Family, Bard (1999), ?ISBN, page 103:

     No ubiquitous telephones, no fax machines or computers burping and tweeping and chirping their electronic chirps.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:tweep.

Etymology 2

From TWEP, acronym of terminate with extreme prejudice, a US military intelligence and CIA euphemism for "kill, assassinate" that was first used in the 1960s.

Verb

tweep (third-person singular simple present tweeps, present participle tweeping, simple past and past participle tweeped)

1. (US, intelligence, euphemistic) To kill; to assassinate.
   • 1997, William B. Breuer, Vendetta!: Fidel Castro and the Kennedy Brothers, John Wiley (1997), ?ISBN:

     Robert Maheu, tough, astute, dynamic, was the perfect professional to implement the CIA scheme to tweep Fidel Castro.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:tweep.

Etymology 3

Blend of Twitter +? peep (“person”).

Noun

tweep (plural tweeps or tweeple)

1. (Internet, slang) A user of the Twitter microblogging service.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:tweep.

   Synonyms: Twitter user, Twitter blogger, tweeter, twitterer

Anagrams

• pewet, wepte