twoer
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]twoer (plural twoers)
- A glass marble in children's games, slightly larger and more valuable than a oner.
- 1953, Julian Franklyn, The Cockney: a survey of London life and language:
- As the word implies the glarneys were glass marbles, but no ball out of an old mineral-water bottle was ever dignified by receiving the name, though such balls were not despised possessions, and had the rank of twoers.
- (UK) A conker that has won two matches.