tweague
noun/twiːɡ/
Etymology Derived from tweak.
- This puts the young Gentlewoman into ſuch a Tweague, that ſhe can do nothing all Day, nor ſleep at Night, for dreaming of the conjuring Man: And in the Morning, leaves for Devotion, to conſult Taurus and Gemini: and finds her Sweet-heart ſo accurately deſcribed, as if he had conſulted with the Devil, or her Maid, inſtead of the Twins.1710, Ned Ward, The Whole Pleasures of Matrimony, London: Tho. Norris, page 18:
- I fancy this put the Old Fellow in a rare Tweag.1712, John Arbuthnot, John Bull Still in His Senses, London: John Morphew, page 25:
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- You're in a devilish Tweague, for fear of losing your Gallant, are ye?1715, Charles Molloy, The Perplex'd Couple: Or, Mistake Upon Mistake., London: W. Meares; J. Brown, page 61:
- I wish, sir, you had now and then something to do with my under-strappers, to see what a tweague and a taking you would be in, when you wanted to come at a fact, at the roundabout way the b——'s will take to give it to you,—just as I am doing now, you will say.1844, John Heneage Jesse, George Selwyn and His Contemporaries, volume 4, London: Richard Bentley, page 12:
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Obsolete Obsolete form of tweak.