twa
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A Scottish word that means two
- numeral
- UK
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dos
- He has twa cats at home, which he loves very much.
It's the terrible twos, threes, fours and carry on.
- It's the terrible twos, threes, fours and carry on.
- You are arguably one of like you might be tier two of the best quarterbacks.
- And that night around about one or two o'clock away and we always had combo checks.
- A couple was in a left, as in like a couple of people, Two people, yeah.
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Examples
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To win the game, you need to roll twa sixes in a row.
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In Scottish English, we often refer to twa as the number two.
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All right, Two and two, two and two.
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And I think either two or three is always a good way.
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It's about two, two people who are poor as dirt.
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Dan Kim, two first names, one for a man, one for a woman.
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One, it's cheaper, and two, it lets me bodge.
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But notice how he groups those twos into two fours.
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Every day he read Rousseau, every day the other two, Montesquieu and Pascal.
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Etymology
Twa is the Scots word for two, coming from an old German word that also gave English two and German zwei, so it simply means the number 'two'.
