Twinge vs Swinge - What's the difference?
twinge | swinge |
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.
(obsolete) To singe.
(archaic) To move like a lash; to lash.
* Milton
(archaic) To strike hard.
* Shakespeare
* C. Dryden
* Aphra Behn (1640-89) The Feigned Courtesans . This edition: (The plays of) Aphra Behn. Oxford University press 2000. p.233. ISBN 0192834517
As nouns the difference between twinge and swinge
is that twinge is a pinch; a tweak; a twitch while swinge is (archaic) a swinging blow.As verbs the difference between twinge and swinge
is that twinge is to pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak while swinge is (obsolete) to singe.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.
swinge
English
Verb
(d)- (Spenser)
- Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail.
- I had swinged him soundly.
- And swinges his own vices in his son.
- Sir Feeble: Tis jelousy, the old worm that bites. [To Sir Cautious] Whom is it that you suspect.
- Sir Cautious: Alas I know not whom to suspect, I would I did; but if you discover him, I would swinge him.
