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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
twee/twiː/

▶adjective (tweer, tweest) Brit. excessively quaint, pretty, or sentimental.

– derivatives
tweely adverb,
tweeness noun.

– origin early 20th cent.: representing a child's pronunc. of sweet.

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