MWI

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MWI

  1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for Malawi.
    Synonym: MW (alpha-2)

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MWI

  1. (physics) Abbreviation of many-worlds interpretation.
  2. (uncountable, physics) Abbreviation of microwave irradiation.

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MWI (comparative more MWI, superlative most MWI)

  1. (British, especially Scotland, Internet slang) Initialism of mad with it (extremely drunk or intoxicated).
    • [2011, Tanya Cooke, Help! I'm a Facebookaholic: Inside the Crazy World of Social Networking, London: John Blake Publishing, →ISBN, page 185:
      'Getting MWI', apparently short for Getting Mad With It (or in other words, drunk).]
    • 2017 January 27, Grado, “I got blanked by Robert Carlyle for calling him Boaby but I felt like luckiest man on the world at T2 Trainspotting premiere”, in Daily Record[1], archived from the original on 2022-06-27:
      The live stream was under way and a total of 1.3million folk tuned in to see me blether with [Ewan] McGregor about blasting Born Slippy at empties and if Irvine Welsh had the Monday aff work to get MWI – mad wae it – after the premiere.
    • 2019 January 31, “The Glasgow Live girls give up their vices for January”, in Glasgow Live[2], archived from the original on 2022-01-27:
      It seemed like a great idea at the time. It was New Year's Day, I was slightly rough (okay completely still MWI) and there seemed absolutely no time like the present to ditch the fags for good as my 2019 resolution.
    • 2020 July 3, David Irvine, “KFC share hilarious response to Scot who bought KFC tracksuit from Wish when he was 'mwi'”, in The Scottish Sun[3], archived from the original on 2021-10-31:
      Sharing his purchase, Andy posted: "Really need to stay aff that wish when I'm mwi"
    • 2021 May 20, @normaltiffany, Twitter[4], archived from the original on 2023-06-05:
      not just saying this cos im mwi and have ran out of booze but it's actually criminal that scotland has an alcohol curfew

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