What people would use the word. As I understand it, it is exaggerated pretentiousness or some such thing.
Ladies that have tea, in their finery - would use the word twee It means dainty and quaint - awfully nice isn't it
Yep that's really quite commonly used , it has a couple of ways of using it...... it means uncool... , or unfashionable ...or it's an alternative use for the 4 letter F word!!...as in ''Naff Off''!!
Twee is a very old fashioned word...hardly ever heard these days , more often used in print, ..... it means' overly sweet, or sentimental.... A book like Little Women for example might be described as being ''too twee''
I use to say this to my self as a young boy when being told off by some one in higher authority "Yes sir no sir three bags full sir"
Loved reading this thread. Was like watching BrittBox channel on TV. I grew up in the rural south. Everyone else sounds cool to us since we grew up using words and phrases someone probably made up 150 years ago while sipping way too much moonshine.
This is a nice American couple who have lived in England for about 4 years and make blogs about living here.
Only a man would use the word Guv to another man, and then rarely ... so those words put together in sentence like that would never happen. No guy would ever pardon himself to go to the loo another man using those words ... and aside from that, generally it's women who use the word ''loo''...most men colloquially say "lav'' ''Bog'' or Toilet... British English is like any foreign language ..in that for example you may learn Spanish theoretically by reading the words , but generally speaking, when you put them into a sentence in conversation with a Spaniard they're out of context..
@Holly Saunders "for example you may learn Spanish theoretically by reading the words , but generally speaking, when you put them into a sentence in conversation with a Spaniard they're out of context.. My friend, Greg Sanchez, born and raised in New Mexico by parents born in Spain, explained to me that correct Spanish and "Mexican Spanish" can be quite different. For example, there is a river in New Mexico the sign for which states "Rio Puerco". To most Mexicans, that translates to English as "Pork River"; the grocery stores here label all their pork meat as "Puerco". Greg grew up believing "puerco" means "dirty". Frank