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/twiːɡ/ · noun
(obsolete, UK dialectal) Doubt, perplexity; a troubled or distressed condition..
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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Tweague means (obsolete, UK dialectal) Doubt, perplexity; a troubled or distressed condition..
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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.
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