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Satire: ‘Twea’ must enter Oxford dictionary

Gabriel Barimma Tweaaa DCE Gabriel Barima, a former DCE of Ahafo Ano South is well known for making the word popular

Thu, 31 Aug 2017 Source: http://newaccra.com

A sarcastic exclamation made in response to a question, comment, action or statement, to show that the idea being expressed is silly, laughable, absurd or nonsensical.

Synonyms: Bullshit, crap, rubbish, ‘yeah, right’, ‘ns3m hunu’,‘ns3m fon’ ‘SMH’, nonsense.

Origin: The word originates from the West African country of Ghana, a country popular in recent times for football and Azonto dance.

It went viral after a politician verbally attacked and nearly killed

an innocent spectator for chuckling during the politician’s speech.

Ghana police are still searching for the person who said Tweaa.

USAGE:noun

Tweaahahaha: [tshwiaah- ha-ha-ha]

A unique type of laughter caused by sheer tweaaness.

Tweaadict: [tshwiaah- dikt]

Someone who is simply cannot stop using the word Tweaa.

Tweaaphobia:[tshwiaah-fow-beau]

An extreme fear of being tweaad when speaking or performing some other act in public.

Tweaagle: [tshwiaah- gul]

An eagle that cannot soar.

Eg. The Super Green Tweaagles of Nigeria. This was added after Ghana defeated sister- country Nigeria in a CHAN soccer game.

Tweaawama: [tshwiaah- wah-mah]

Sharwama that is poorly done.

Tweakai: [tshwiaah-cah-he]

An expression to show that something is outrageously tweaarific

e.g. Tweaakai! Somebody said Justin Bieber sings better than Efya

Mantweaaster United:

A derogatory term describing the state of Manchester United under David Moyes.

COMMON EXPRESSIONS:

The crowd tweaad the boring musician off the stage.

Tweaa, am I your co-equal?

I couldn’t stand the tweaaness of the Ghana-Nigeria CHAN game, so I was forced to watch Marie Cruz.

With an empty goal before him, Yahaya Mohammed shot the ball tweaarifically over the bar.

Yesterday I tweaad, today I am twearing, tomorrow I shall tweaa.

Source: http://newaccra.com