Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Scotch form of
two .
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Examples
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‘It was no Mrs Corrie, although, between you and me, mistress, I do not believe they twae are married.’
My Bones Will Keep Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1977
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Clerk Saunders started, and Margaret she turned, Into his arms as asleep she lay; 50And sad and silent was the night, That was atween thir twae.
Clerk Saunders 1921
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'A heid hetter than hell fire, and twae een lookin 'different ways for the Sabbath.'
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"A heid hetter than hell fire, and twae een lookin 'different ways for the Sabbath."
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Before starting, that is, at six oclock, the ballad-hunters had, just to lay the stomach, a devilled duck or twae and some London porter.
Paras. 25-49 1909
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I doubt there's been a shoor up the muirs, and a shoor there means twae mair feet o 'water in the Clachlands.
The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies John Buchan 1907
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It was twae miles from Wamphray on the Lockerbie road, but they tell me the place is noo just a rickle o 'stanes.'
Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907
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'A heid better than hell fire, and twae een lookin 'different ways for the Sabbath.'
The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan 1907
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But sune I gaed to my bed, being heavy wi 'sleep, for I had traivelled for twae days.
The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies John Buchan 1907
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He's sworn me and twae-three ithers to bury him there, wherever he may dee.
The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies John Buchan 1907
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