twee pop

Coyly precious indie pop, generally driven by jangly guitars and adenoidal or high-pitched vocals. The name "twee" was first applied to indie pop groups in England in the 1980s, like Heavenly, and was not obviously a compliment. At best, it was an affectionate insult. In the U.K., calling something "twee" suggests that it is affectedly dainty. To the extent there is currently a twee pop revival, that revival is mostly taking place in the U.S. and Scandinavia, where no one knows that they should care about the pejorative implications of the word.

The band members of Camera Obscura might not like to have their music referred to as twee pop, but they are twee as f**k.

by t-train August 31, 2007

Twee-cocking

When someone is performatively shy and quirky on purpose to get attention.

You see Brent's MySpace profile picture where he's playing the ukulele? He's totally twee-cocking.

by Blink155PodFan360 September 11, 2018

NW Twee

Proper noun: Hampstead. An area of North West London covered by postcode area NW3. Hampstead is populated largely by moneyed liberals, champagne socialists and aged ex-hippies which results in taste and style choices that are annoyingly twee. NW3 + twee = NW Twee.
Pronounced 'enn double you twee'.

"Tarquin and I are torn between renaming him 'Life' and 'Cactus'. It needs to be something that expresses his masculinity yet - bugger! He's puked his yak cheese and aniseed brûlé all over my pashmina shawl."
"Bloody hell Saskya, you're so NW Twee!"

by McCririck's unlucky Laundress October 2, 2005

twee pop

Type of indie pop that is known for simple, sweet melodies and lyrics, often combined with jangling guitars; twee is also British slang for something almost sickenly sweet

All Girl Summer Fun Band, Camera Obscura, Belle & Sebastian are all great twee pop bands.

by Abigail Brooke October 18, 2006

twee

1.(verb)(to tweee)(tweeed) to poke with 2 fingers in the general anal area, usually a sharp quick motion used to discomfort and humiliate.

2.(v) when in sneak mode in the game: Elder Scrolls, Oblivion, you attack in hand-to-hand mode.

3.(v) any gesture involving the first 2 fingers on any hand jabbing forward, mimics the female masturbation or anal motion and is considered worse than the finger

1. Mark tweed Ray when he stood in front of the TV.

2. Todd totally pulled a twee on that rat in the Imperial City Sewers.

3. When Lindsey saw Kacie she quickly shouted, "Bitch!" and shot her the twee.

by r2oo6 September 12, 2007

Shing Twee

A shiny tree normally mentioned by bored students in Japanese courses.

Sweet... A shing twee.

by bigandjolly October 8, 2006

twee-mail

An e-mail that, like a tweet on twitter, is 24 characters or less and reports boring status or stupid personal factoids that the recipients don't give a crap about.

Pam, our dufus friend, Mark, just sent me a twee-mail from his iPhone saying, "At Pier 39, Wipeout Cafe, eating a Wipeout burger". Does he really think I care where he is and what he's eating--boooorrrring!

by Bubba Adbul Ledbetter August 12, 2009