Twig vs Stob - What's the difference?
twig | stob |
A small thin branch of a tree or bush.
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(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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To understand the meaning of (a person); to comprehend.
To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover.
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* Hawthorne
(dialectal, Appalachian, Northern England, Scotland) A stick, twig or peg, especially in roofing or matting.
* 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.11:
(dialect, Appalachian, Northern England, Scotland) Regional variant of stab.
(dialect, Northern England, Scotland) To roof with stob-thatch, to make mats with a stob tool.
Appalachian English
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As nouns the difference between twig and stob
is that twig is a small thin branch of a tree or bush while stob is (dialectal|appalachian|northern england|scotland) a stick, twig or peg, especially in roofing or matting.As verbs the difference between twig and stob
is that twig is to beat with twigs or twig can be (colloquial|regional) to realise something; to catch on or twig can be (obsolete|scotland) to twitch; to pull; to tweak while stob is (dialect|appalachian|northern england|scotland) regional variant of stab.twig
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) twigge, from (etyl) . More at two.Noun
(wikipedia twig) (en noun)- They used twigs and leaves as a base to start the fire.
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)Etymology 2
From (etyl) and (etyl) .Verb
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- Do you twig me?
- Now twig him; now mind him.
- 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.stob
English
Noun
(en noun)- He climbed from the skiff and tied up at a stob and labored up the thick grassless bank toward the arches where the bridge went to earth.