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Webster 1913 Edition
Twinge
Twinge
(twĭnj)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Twinged
(twĭnjd)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Twinging
.] [OE.
twengen
, AS. twengan
; akin to OE. twingen
to pain, afflict, OFries. thwinga
, twinga
, dwinga
, to constrain, D. dwingen
, OS. thwingan
, G. zwingen
, OHG. dwingan
, thwingan
, to press, oppress, overcome, Icel. þvinga
, Sw. tvinga
to subdue, constrain, Dan. tvinge
, and AS. þün
to press, OHG. dūhen
, and probably to E. thong
. Perhaps influenced by twitch
. Cf. Thong
.] 1.
To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.
When a man is past his sense,
There’s no way to reduce him thence,
But
Or laying on of heavy blows.
There’s no way to reduce him thence,
But
twinging
him by the ears or nose,Or laying on of heavy blows.
Hudibras.
2.
To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.
The gnat . . .
himself, and so mastered him.
twinged
him [the lion] till he made him tearhimself, and so mastered him.
L'Estrange.
Twinge
,Verb.
I.
To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain;
as, the side
. twinges
Twinge
,Noun.
1.
A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.
A master that gives you . . .
twinges
by the ears. L' Estrange.
2.
A sudden sharp pain; a darting local pain of momentary continuance;
“ A twinge for my own sin.” as, a
. twinge
in the arm or sideDryden.
Webster 1828 Edition
Twinge
TWINGE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To affect with a sharp sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains. The gnat twinged the lion till he made him tear himself, and so he mastered him.
2.
To pinch; to tweak; to pull with a jerk; as, to twinge one by the ears and nose.TWINGE
,Verb.
T.
TWINGE
,Noun.
1.
A sharp rebuke of conscience.2.
A pinch; a tweak; as a twinge of the ear.Definition 2024
twinge
twinge
English
Noun
twinge (plural twinges)
- A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.
- A sudden sharp pain.
- I got a twinge in my arm.
- 1935, Francis Beeding, chapter 7/2, in The Norwich Victims:
- The two Gordon setters came obediently to heel. Sir Oswald Feiling winced as he turned to go home. He had felt a warning twinge of lumbago.
Translations
sudden sharp pain
Verb
twinge (third-person singular simple present twinges, present participle twingeing or twinging, simple past and past participle twinged)
- (transitive) To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.
- Hudibras
- When a man is past his sense, / There's no way to reduce him thence, / But twinging him by the ears or nose, / Or laying on of heavy blows.
- Hudibras
- (transitive) To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.
- L'Estrange
- The gnat […] twinged him [the lion] till he made him tear himself, and so mastered him.
- L'Estrange
- (intransitive) To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain.
- My side twinges.