Lexicographical Neighbors of Twiny
Literary usage of Twiny
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"twiny, G. complaining, poorly. ... varra twiny today.' Twing, c. a small
scarlet-coloured insect, said by the superstitious to occasion fatal illness to ..."
2. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1867)
"AS tut/winter, two winters or years. twiny, adj. (1) fretful, uneasy. (2) Full
of complaint, given to whine or pule. " She s nobbut a twiny body. ..."
3. Pinafore Palace: A Book of Rhymes for the Nursery by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith (1907)
"... vV was once a little vine, Viny, Winy, twiny, Viny, Twisty-twiny, Little vine!
W was once a whale, ..."
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