twinsy

comparative more twinsy · superlative most twinsy

1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of twins.

   Mother wanted to name us Lillian and Lucian because it sounded twinsy.

   1945, James Street, Short Stories, New York, N.Y.: Dial Press, page 273

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   “I never saw such twinsy twins before,” she said; “do you know yourselves apart?”

   1915, Carolyn Wells, “The Double Party”, in Two Little Women, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, page 59

   A boy I knew once put the puzzle in this way: “You would think that twins would be more truly twins than they are. But when they seem most twinsy, they’re somehow different, after all!”

   1917, Mary R[osetta] Parkman, “A Citizen of the World: Herbert C. Hoover”, in Heroes of To-day, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., page 301

   A similar trend has been noted for twins being given “twinsy” names.

   1976, Behavior Genetics, page 349

   Two burly men, dressed twinsy-style in identical tight pants and tanktops, swaggered along, linked by their pinkies.

   1979, Garry Wills, At Button’s, Kansas City, Mo.: Andrews and McMeel, Inc., →ISBN, page 148

   “I didn’t give them twinsy names” is the way the mother of twins used the term in a report on twins on “Good Morning, America” on August 3, 1983.

   1998, Paul Dickson, Family Words: The Dictionary for People Who Don’t Know a Frone from a Brinkle, Washington, D.C.: Broadcast Interview Source, Inc., →ISBN, page 127