What is the difference between tweak and twig?

tweak | twig |

In transitive terms the difference between tweak and twig

is that tweak is to twit or tease while twig is to beat with twigs.

tweak

English

Noun

(en noun)

A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch.

a tweak of the nose .

Trouble; distress; tweag.

A slight adjustment or modification.

He is running so many tweaks it is hard to remember how it looked originally.

(obsolete, slang) A prostitute.

* 1638 , , Barnabae Itinerarium: or Drunken Barnaby's four journeys to the north of England : In latin and english metre , Thomas Gent (1852), page 113:

[…] Thence to Bautree, as I came there, / From the bushes near the lane, there / Rush'd a tweak in gesture flanting / With a leering eye, and wanton : / But my flesh I did subdue it / Fearing lest my purse should rue it.

Verb

(en verb)

To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch.

(informal) To adjust slightly; to fine-tune.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.

To twit or tease.

(intransitive, US, slang) To abuse methamphetamines, especially crystal meth.

(intransitive, US, slang) To exhibit symptoms of methamphetamine abuse, such as extreme nervousness, compulsiveness, erratic motion, excitability; possibly a blend of twitch and freak.

(intransitive, US, slang) To exhibit extreme nervousness, evasiveness when confronted by law enforcement or other authority (e.g., customs agents, border patrol, teacher, etc.), mimicking methamphetamine abuse symptoms.

Derived terms

* (drug abuser) tweaker, (US) * (drug abuse) tweaking

References

twig

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) twigge, from (etyl) . More at two.

Noun

(wikipedia twig) (en noun)

A small thin branch of a tree or bush.

They used twigs and leaves as a base to start the fire.

* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=

, title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=1 citation , passage=A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.}}

Derived terms

Verb

(twigg)

To beat with twigs.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) and (etyl) .

Verb

(twigg)

(colloquial, regional) To realise something; to catch on.

:* He hasn't twigged that we're planning a surprise party for him.

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, date=2012-05-30 , year= , first= , last= , author=John E. McIntyre , authorlink= , title=A future for copy editors , site=Baltimore Sun citation , archiveorg= , accessdate= , passage= Well, with fewer people doing two or three times the work, you may have already twigged to this. }}

To understand the meaning of (a person); to comprehend.

Do you twig me?

To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover.

* Foote

Now twig him; now mind him.

* Hawthorne

as if he were looking right into your eyes and twigged something there which you had half a mind to conceal

Etymology 3

Compare tweak.

Verb

(twigg)

(obsolete, Scotland) To twitch; to pull; to tweak.

(Webster 1913)