英语词汇twee的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	twee
词源	twee [E20th] A child’s pronunciation of *sweet, recorded from the first decade of the 20th century. Originally twee was as complimentary as sweet, now it is intended as an insult, meaning ‘excessively or affectedly quaint, pretty, or sentimental’.
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