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Twinged vs Twigged - What's the difference?

twinged | twigged |

As verbs the difference between twinged and twigged

is that twinged is past tense of twinge while twigged is past tense of twig.

twinged

English

Verb

(head)
  • (twinge)

    • twinge

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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 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)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain; as, the side twinges.

    • twigged

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (twig)

    • 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.
  • * {{quote-web
    • , 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)