Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An abbreviation for Twaddell, indicating the use of the Twaddell hydrometer scale: as, 10° Tw. = specific gravity 1.050.
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Examples
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They then taught the audience how to pronounce the word tw*t correctly, an experience I will surely relay to my grandchildren.
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San Antonio-based marketing firm Taylor West is addressing the changing landscape with a new digital division called tw labs.
Jacksonville Business News - Local Jacksonville News | Jacksonville Business Journal 2010
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Obama is the same, and they've both been told by their respective armed forces bosses that they either front the money and do it properly, or get known as the tw@ts who lost the latest Afghan war.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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But when it comes to this kind of tw -- the 24-hour newses, I started out during the post-election period watching CNN, and then I w-- found myself switching over to
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Why, lad, 'tw'u'd be like throwin' yer silver into the sea to spend it on them good-fur-nothin ', shif'less critters.
Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught Glance Gaylord
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Hagar guided the boy up to his room, bidding him good-night with many assurances that "'tw'u'd be pleasanter to-morrow,' nough sight!" and left him to himself.
Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught Glance Gaylord
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The Twit Network, pokes fun at the inanity of some tweets 'content, our collective self-absorption, our obsession with celebrities and the painful convention of affixing "tw -" to beginning of any word related to social media.
Mashable! 2010
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Starting words with "tw" is still funny, and maybe, like saying "www dot" to start a funny word or phrase to ironically convey its currency, it always will be.
Emdashes 2009
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Is there a "tw -" word for feeling nauseous after consuming too much twitter news ... a "twangover"?
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Number of distinct words heard starting with an extraneous "tw": >
Discover Blogs 2009
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