tweed

tweed

See also: Tweed

English

Tweed

Tweed jacket

Etymology

Attested since the 1830s. Probably a shortening or back-formation from Scots tweedling (“a type of twilled cloth”),[1][2] attested since the 16th century and related to tweedle; the two words are variants of tweeling and tweel, which go back to Middle English twel, twyle (“a type of woven fabric; twill”), whence also English twill.[3] Scottish tradition says it derives directly from tweel when an English merchant misread tweels or tweeled (cloth) in an 1831 letter from a Scottish merchant as Tweed(s) and took it to be a trade-name based on the River Tweed,[4][5] but the DSL says evidence for this is lacking, and because English merchants must have been familiar with tweel(ed cloth) before the 1830s, it seems unlikely to be based on misunderstanding tweel rather than on the well-attested tweedle.[4] Several of the earliest citations, from 1839,[6] 1841, and 1845 treat it as a new name for a familiar cloth.[4]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /twiːd/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -iːd

Noun

tweed (countable and uncountable, plural tweeds)

1. A coarse woolen fabric used for clothing.
   • 1839, Great Britain. Central Criminal Court, Central Criminal Court. Minutes of Evidence, page 75:

     MICHAEL NOWAK, alias John Mazurkiewiez, was indicted for stealing, on the 15th of April, 2 1/4 yards of woollen cloth, called tweed, value 12s., and 2 1/4 yards of woollen cloth, called doe-skin, value 17s., […]

   • 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 13, in Well Tackled!‎:

     “Nothing very special, sir. He had a mack or coat over his arm, and a trilby hat. He wore a tweed suit, sir, I think.”

Translations

coarse woolen fabric

Bulgarian: туид m (tuid) Chinese: Mandarin: 粗花呢 Czech: tvíd (cs) m Dutch: tweed (nl) n Esperanto: tvido Finnish: tweed (fi), tweedkangas French: tweed (fr) m Georgian: ტვიდი (ka) (ṭvidi) German: Tweed (de) m Greek: τουίντ (el) n (touínt) Irish: bréidín m Italian: tweed m Macedonian: твид m (tvid) Maori: tūīti Portuguese: tweed (pt) m Russian: твид (ru) m (tvid) Scottish Gaelic: clò m Slovak: tvid m

References

1. “tweed”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
2. “tweed”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
3. “tweedling” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries., “tweedle” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries., “tweel” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
4. “tweed” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
5. “tweed”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
6. Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “tweed”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

• dewet, dweet, tewed

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Finnish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English tweed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʋiːdi/, [ˈt̪ʋiːdi]

Noun

tweed

1. tweed (fabric)

Declension

Inflection of tweed (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		tweed	tweedit
genitive		tweedin	tweedien
partitive		tweediä	tweedejä
illative		tweediin	tweedeihin
		singular	plural
nominative		tweed	tweedit
accusative	nom.	tweed	tweedit
	gen.	tweedin
genitive		tweedin	tweedien
partitive		tweediä	tweedejä
inessive		tweedissä	tweedeissä
elative		tweedistä	tweedeistä
illative		tweediin	tweedeihin
adessive		tweedillä	tweedeillä
ablative		tweediltä	tweedeiltä
allative		tweedille	tweedeille
essive		tweedinä	tweedeinä
translative		tweediksi	tweedeiksi
instructive		—	tweedein
abessive		tweedittä	tweedeittä
comitative		—	tweedeineen

Possessive forms of tweed (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	tweedini	tweedimme
2nd person	tweedisi	tweedinne
3rd person	tweedinsä

Synonyms

• tweedkangas

Derived terms

Derived terms

• tweedhame
• tweedkangas
• tweedkankainen
• tweedtakki

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /twid/

Noun

tweed m (uncountable)

1. tweed

Further reading

• “tweed”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Portuguese

Noun

tweed m (uncountable)

1. tweed (coarse woolen fabric)

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Romanian

Etymology

From English tweed.

Noun

tweed n (plural tweeduri)

1. tweed

Declension

Declension of tweed

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) tweed	tweedul	(niște) tweeduri	tweedurile
genitive/dative	(unui) tweed	tweedului	(unor) tweeduri	tweedurilor
vocative	tweedule		tweedurilor

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English tweed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtwid/ [ˈt̪wið̞]
• Rhymes: -id

Noun

tweed m (uncountable)

1. tweed

Further reading

• “tweed”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014