(int.) Variously extended, as twee-we-we, twee-twee-twee, twee-ee. [Echoic] An imitation of the sound of a horn, and also of the notes of some birds: see quots.
1708. Motteux, in Muses Mercury, Jan., 11. With a Twee-we-we, Twee-we-we, think it no Scorn, Cits, Souldiers, and Courtiers, give way to the Horn.
1880. A. B. Todd, Poet. Wks. (1907), 258. A little wren its twee-twee-twee let fall.
1909. Daily News, 21 June, 4. Only the greenfinch’s tireless ‘twee-ee’ was to be heard.
