twee

adj

1. (Ireland, UK, derogatory)Overly quaint, dainty, cute or nice.

   “Those Beatrix Potter animals are a little twee for my taste.”

   “Despite the fact that the designs were all a bit twee […] they stood out a mile in the market place at that time.”

   “Forget the clichéd image of Brigadoon and shortbread tins, the dreadfully twee tartan tat and Celtic kitsch that, sadly, still exists in the 21st century, and is too often passed off as a genuine Highland experience.”

   “As always with Disney, there are moments when it all seems a bit twee, others when it is excessively PC.”

   “I just wouldn’t have felt comfortable saying, "I am a duckbilled platypus, and this is how I find my shrimps." I think it would have been twee.”

noun

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable)Ellipsis of twee pop.

   “Even the wider world got its doses of twee sound, from the fluffy pop of Aztec Camera to the stylish bounce of the Railway Children.”

   “Wang points out the very clear links between twee and queer culture, as many 90s twee bands “played alongside queercore bands like Team Dresch.[…]””