Tweer vs Tweep - What's the difference?
tweer | tweep |
A chirp or beep.
* 1995 , John Wynne, The Listener's Guide to Audio Books: Reviews, Recommendations, and Listings for More Than 2,000 Titles , Fireside (1995), ISBN 0684802392,
* 2008 , Eric W. Bragg, The Midnight Blade of Sonic Honey , Oyster Moon Press (2008), ISBN 9781435714281,
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To chirp or beep.
* 1996 , , A New Day Rising , Bethany House Publishers (1996), ISBN 9780764201929,
* 1999 , , Steps and Exes: A Novel of Family , Bard (1999), ISBN 9780380977673, page 103:
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(US, intelligence, euphemistic) To kill; to assassinate.
* 1997 , , Vendetta!: Fidel Castro and the Kennedy Brothers , John Wiley (1997), ISBN 9780471184560:
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(Internet, slang) A user.
* 2011 , (writing as God), The Last Testament: A Memoir , Simon & Schuster (2011), ISBN 9781451640182,
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English onomatopoeias
As nouns the difference between tweer and tweep
is that tweer is while tweep is a chirp or beep or tweep can be (internet|slang) a user.As a verb tweep is
to chirp or beep or tweep can be (us|intelligence|euphemistic) to kill; to assassinate.tweep
English
Etymology 1
Onomatopoeic.Noun
(en noun)page 321:
- The readers are Star Trek'' cast members, and the sound is enhanced with authentic, ''Enterprise -sounding beeps and tweeps .
page 106:
- Many of the neighboring birds had already begun their preliminary chirps, sending out those quirky little twits and tweeps that announce their presence
Verb
(en verb)unnumbered page:
- A bird tweeped and twittered on a thistle by the side of the trail.
- No ubiquitous telephones, no fax machines or computers burping and tweeping and chirping their electronic chirps.
Etymology 2
From TWEP , acronym of (terminate with extreme prejudice), a US military intelligence and CIA euphemism for "kill, assassinate" that was first used in the 1960s.Verb
(en verb)- Robert Maheu, tough, astute, dynamic, was the perfect professional to implement the CIA scheme to tweep Fidel Castro.
Etymology 3
.Noun
(en-noun)page 305:
- As astute tweeps will observe, I myself only follow one other person, the one thou callest "Justin Bieber";