Meaning of tweague | Babel Free

Definitions

Doubt, perplexity; a troubled or distressed condition.

UK, dialectal, obsolete

Examples

“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.”

“I fancy this put the Old Fellow in a rare Tweag.”

“You're in a devilish Tweague, for fear of losing your Gallant, are ye?”

“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.”

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