What's the difference between syrupy and twee?

Syrupy


Definition:

  • (a.) Like sirup, or partaking of its qualities.
  • (a.) Same as Sirup, Sirupy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "A syrupy drizzle of prettiness covers this cloying movie," wrote the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw .
  • (2) The result is a decadent pancake that has the syrupy sweetness associated with gulab jamun , jangiri and other Indian sweets.
  • (3) Let it bubble for a few minutes, or until it looks a bit more … well, syrupy.
  • (4) Continue until the liquid turns slightly syrupy, about 5 or 6 minutes.
  • (5) Increase the heat under the pan and simmer the sauce until thickened and slightly syrupy.
  • (6) The acid production of 10 syrupy medicines sweetened with sucrose, fructose, sorbitol, xylitol and saccharin or with a combination of these was tested.
  • (7) Eight weeks after BP's well ruptured, the full impact on marine life became increasingly visible with images of dead and dying hermit crab and brown pelicans trapped and weighed down in dark syrupy oil while spawning of Atlantic bluefin tuna is threatened in the Gulf of Mexico – only one of two places in the world where this happens.
  • (8) Details: thedoctorsorders.com Enter the sublime chambers: Five groundbreaking J Dilla productions Common: Heat (Geffen, 2000) The aptly named Heat vibrates with a brilliantly thick, syrupy Afrobeat feel that is the perfect midpoint between the shimmering burnt-sugar funk of Fela Kuti and the hammer-fall, chicken-scratch soul power of James Brown.
  • (9) Two sweeteners with a syrupy component, maltose and sorbitol, fell further away.
  • (10) On the tongue, well, it's an acquired taste: slightly metallic, syrupy sweet, a faint hint of orange and cream.
  • (11) Add the vinegar, cider, thyme and sugar and reduce over a medium heat until the liquid becomes syrupy.
  • (12) 'Syrupy' solutions of liquid linear polyacrylamide (> or = 10%T, 0%C) appear to be excellent for fractionation of oligonucleotides and, potentially, for DNA sequencing.
  • (13) 1D-1,3,4,5-Tetra-O-allyl-myo-inositol and the above described, relevant diaste reoisomers were converted into 1D-2,6-di-O-benzyl-myo-inositol which gave the syrupy octabenzyl ester of 1D-2,6-di-O-benzyl-myo-inositol 1,3,4,5-tetrakisphosphate.
  • (14) When the mixture is syrupy, add the apple and cook until the apple is soft and then add the mustard.
  • (15) His early 60s white R&B band the Fairlanes included guitarist Billy Sherrill, the producer who later pioneered the 1970s "countrypolitan" sound by laying syrupy strings and a whole lot of rhinestones on George'n'Tammy and Charlie Rich, while lead singer Dan Penn , along with fellow FAMEr Spooner Oldham and others, later wrote some of the greatest soul songs of the 60s, including The Dark End Of The Street.
  • (16) Churning out that syrupy gloop is all very well Ant, but it won't put £378 in my wallet.
  • (17) He didn't require a translation, but responded by asking, in a syrupy Viennese accent, " Was ist die Frage? "
  • (18) For comparison, rabbit antisera were also produced against glucagon polymer (GA-10) and syrupy glucagon fibrils (PGA-2).
  • (19) Racemic 1,2,4-tri-O-benzyl-5,6-O-isopropylidene-myo-inositol was prepared by a new route involving crotyl (but-2-enyl) ethers and converted into the (-)-omega-camphanates to give the pure crystalline 1L-diastereoisomer and the chirally impure, syrupy 1D-diastereoisomer.
  • (20) Parents gave daily doses of syrupy medications and elixirs 3-4 times a day and at least two of these doses were given just before or during a designated nap or bedtime.

Twee


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Of course, the great British countryside was never as twee as that – a point made forcibly by the second album from mysterious electronic collective Hacker Farm .
  • (2) By the time her debut album proper came out, nu rave had melted into the witchouse hipster scene and Charli turned her attentions to darkwave electro-pop: but her image and sound turned out to be too twee for the leftfield crowd and too postmodern for the pop scene.
  • (3) The second definition highlights followers of a certain hipster culture, which revels in a childlike naivety; the films of Wes Anderson , the early books of Dave Eggers , and the twee indie pop of Belle and Sebastian are all mentioned.
  • (4) I used to avoid watching Bake Off, thinking it twee, but I was scratching around for a new interest as this series rolled around – having started a mammoth stint off the booze.
  • (5) is the clifftop of bare acceptability beyond which tweeting like a child tips into the rolling, sticky spume of gormless, cuff-clenching twee.
  • (6) And as for the healthy eating campaign , given that half the food sold in the US appears to be fashioned purely from E numbers and polystyrene, that's not a twee first lady hobby, that's humanitarian crisis work.
  • (7) "Only Britain," said Burns (another Aussie), "could make rape sound twee."
  • (8) It starts with these lines: When a language dies The divine things stars, sun and moon the human things thinking and feeling are no longer reflected in that mirror The poem is a little twee, granted, but the message couldn't be truer.
  • (9) Ti Va Zadou is a twee little guesthouse with four cosy bedrooms a five-minute walk from the little beach next to the port.
  • (10) The website is a curious affair – a sort of doggy dating site riddled with twee canine puns from “how to create a pawesome profile” to a section devoted to “waggy tales”.
  • (11) Their hearts won’t be wrenched asunder by baking tragedy, encapsulated by a lingering shot of some lumpy petits fours and ultimately soothed by plinky lullaby music and incidental twee.
  • (12) It's kind of a luxury rent-controlled ghetto for lawyers and barristers, and there is a beautiful tailors, a fine chapel, established by the Knights Templar (from which the compound takes its name), a twee cottage designed by Sir Christopher Wren and a rose garden; which I never promised you.
  • (13) Much has been made of millennials and our distain for the big, in favor of the small, the organic, the handcrafted, the twee, the old-time-y.
  • (14) Chic but not twee, the hotel is 30 minutes from Porto, close to the grandly be-churched town of Penafiel.
  • (15) Among the many twee exhibits at the museum are over 500 2D and 3D images of Santa, a mock storybook village depicting Christmas fairytales and Toyland Train Mountain, a three-tier, 30ft wide electric train set that encircles a tree decorated with over 3,000 festive ornaments.
  • (16) From the twee Match.com adverts featuring hipster-style couples to the cocktails served in jam jars at the trendy incomer bar the Albert in EastEnders, “the idea of the hipster has been swallowed up by the mainstream”, says Sanderson.
  • (17) "When I first saw Paro on YouTube I thought it was very twee," says Jepson, as she prepares to give me a demonstration.
  • (18) Only from the 1870s did Austen's critical fortunes revive, courtesy of a saccharine biography by her dull nephew, James Edward Austen-Leigh, and the twee chocolate-box illustrations of the Macmillan edition of her novels.
  • (19) The front, for example, is a twee, unnecessary Nigel Waymouth photo of Drake the Homely Folkie sitting moon-faced and dozy-eyed pouring over a Spanish guitar and fronted by a pair of “bumper”-styled brothel-creepers.
  • (20) For years, I had stupidly dismissed her books because of their rather twee jacket covers featuring blotches of paint and bucolic countryside scenes.