Smarting vs Twinge - What's the difference?
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Painful, sore.
(figuratively) Experiencing emotional pain or embarrassment.
A sensation that smarts or stings.
* (Thomas Halyburton)
A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.
A sudden sharp pain; a darting local pain of momentary continuance; as, a twinge in the arm or side.
*{{quote-book, year=1935, author=
, title=The Norwich Victims
, chapter=7/2 To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.
* Hudibras
To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.
* L'Estrange
To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain; as, the side twinges.
Smarting is a related term of twinge.
As verbs the difference between smarting and twinge
is that smarting is while twinge is to pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.As nouns the difference between smarting and twinge
is that smarting is a sensation that smarts or stings while twinge is a pinch; a tweak; a twitch.As an adjective smarting
is painful, sore.smarting
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- My arm is still smarting from where the ball hit it.
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Strong they are; for they trample upon our light, the penalties of laws divine and human; yea, and the smartings of our own conscience.
Anagrams
*twinge
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=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.}}
Verb
(twing)- 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.
- The gnat twinged him [the lion] till he made him tear himself, and so mastered him.