Tue

1. 1
   nounabbreviation

   Abbreviation of Tuesday.

   The gym schedule lists yoga on Tue and Thu.

   Trash pickup falls on Tue in our neighborhood.

   Note

   The three-letter short form that calendars, timetables and computer date formats rely on, the same shape as Thu beside it. In running prose it often takes a period (Tue.) or stretches to Tues. That longer spelling causes a small trap: Tues is also the plural, so a rota showing "two Tues off" means two Tuesdays, not a variant abbreviation.

2. 2
   proper nounrare

   Alternative form of Tiu (the god Tyr).

   "If he can't mention Tue, Woden, Thor and Frig, how is he going to pronounce the days of the week?"

   2013, Kate Sedley, The Christmas Wassail

   Note

   A modern respelling of the old war god's name. It reshapes Old English Tiw to match the day that still honors him, Tuesday. It turns up mostly when writers line up the weekday gods together, as in Miles Jebb's Suffolk (1995): "Tue, Woden, Thor and Freia." Tiu and Tyr remain the usual names. In print it looks identical to the weekday abbreviation, so only context tells them apart.

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