Twinged vs Twinge - What's the difference?

twinged | twinge |

As verbs the difference between twinged and twinge

is that twinged is (twinge) while twinge is to pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.

As a noun twinge is

a pinch; a tweak; a twitch.

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.

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, 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.

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.

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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.