MWI

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MWI

1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for Malawi.

   Synonym: MW (alpha-2)

English

Noun

MWI

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

Adjective

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

Further reading

• “mwi”, in Urban Dictionary, launched 1999.
• “mwi, n.” under “M, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Anagrams

• WMI, wim