I do love Wednesdays when I can highlight a little-used work, give it a shake off and dust up ready for its chance to shine. The word I have chosen this week is a wonderful little word that is one of my mum’s favourites.
Twee. This is a fussy little word, all prim and proper, present and correct, quietly quaint, in its affected overly ‘nice’ manner. Gracious to a fault yet prudish, minding its p’s and q’s in its banality.
The net curtain twitcher, peeping out of the windows of a dainty, chi-chi house which is fastidiously neat and tidy. It is pretentious, la-di-da, very lady of the manor.
It is one word that I certainly cannot be accused of being!
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Great word! Loved your description of it. 🙂
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Thanks Tonya, I always try to do my word’s justice 🙂
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You do! 😊
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Seriously ? twee ? ….love it. ☺
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It is a fabulous word isn’t it 🙂
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Never heard this word!
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Glad to have introduced it to you 🙂
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That was a twee post.
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Ha! Thanks Anand! 🙂
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I take a twee bow 🙂
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Now be careful you do not crease your clothes that have been immaculately ironed!
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ironed clothes? what are they?!
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LOL 😀 ‘The net curtain twitcher’. Love it… !!!
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Ha Ha! Thanks Sherri, it was a great word to play with 🙂
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Twee was my paternal granny to a, well, twee. When you are running out you might want to try ‘pukka’. Don’t hear it now and It has such a nice clicky sound as if drops off the tongue.
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Ha Ha! Twee to a twee, like it. I also love ‘pukka’ and have toyed with using it, It does have a great clicky sound to it too, I think i might give that a whirl! Thanks Geoff 🙂
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Reblogged this on Smorgasbord – Variety is the spice of life and commented:
Judy has dusted off the word Twee for Wacky Word Wednesday and it sort of does go with the 50s kind of kitch curtains and frilly aprons that were all the rage.. Any words that you feel have gone out of fashion why not share them over on Edwina’s Episodes.
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Thanks for the reblog Sally, Yes, I love hearing some of the old-fashioned words brought back to life again. 🙂
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And I thought that it was a product of a speech impediment. Imagine Tweety bird saying ‘that puddy cat is stuck in a twee”. 😀
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Ha Ha! I love your take on it Rob, much better than the actual meaning 🙂
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Often followed by ‘little’ as in “What a twee little post”.
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Yes, you are right there April 🙂
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Twee! I love this one. Will endeavour to move it into my vocabulary now!
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It sounds great and is pretty versatile too 🙂
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I just put it in the translator and it confirmed what I expected: It is a word used first and foremost in England. That really fits the fine way of the language and the manners of the English people…. I just imagine using that word discussing the latest appearance of Kate during tea time.
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Yes, I think the Middleton family are quite twee! you got it Erika! 🙂
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Great word choice! Can’t help but feel I’ll end up using it in a poem today now!
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Brilliant! I will look out for that on 🙂
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It’s a word, Judy, that makes me want to carry on saying, but adding ‘tweeee-dle dum and tweedle Dee”!!!!!!!
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Ha Ha! Yes it is a great-sounding word.
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Haha, love it! Never heard this one before!
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It is still quite widely used over here 🙂
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Hmmm, never know, I just might try it out, too, like gormless! That was so much fun!
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Ha! Yes they are both worthy of a new lease of life! 🙂
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Quite!
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Sounds cute. Maybe as fussy and tidy as the tweets of twitter 😊
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Ha Ha! Yes indeed 🙂
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