Gender Masculine & Feminine
Usage Popular Culture, Various (Rare)
Meaning & History
Wordplay on the words sweetie and tweet, the onomatopoeia of birds. This is the name of Warner Bros. character Tweety, a yellow canary who began to appear in Looney Tunes (1930) and Merrie Melodies (1931) series of animated cartoons. It has been used sometimes as a nickname for people, mostly in China and the US.