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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Twinge \Twinge\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Twinged}; p. pr & vb n.
{Twinging}.] [OE. twengen AS twengan akin to OE twingen
to pain, afflict, OFries thwinga twinga, dwinga to
constrain, D. dwingen OS thwingan G. zwingen OHG.
dwingan thwingan to press, oppress, overcome, Icel.
[thorn]vinga, Sw tvinga to subdue, constrain, Dan. twinge,
and AS [thorn]["u]n to press, OHG. d[=u]hen, and probably to
E. thong. Perhaps influenced by twitch. Cf {Thong}.]
1. To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.
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. --Hudibras.
2. To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with
pinching or sharp pains.
The gnat . . . twinged him [the lion] till he made
him tear himself, and so mastered him --L'Estrange.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Twinge \Twinge\, v. i.
To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer
a keen, darting, or shooting pain; as the side twinges.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Twinge \Twinge\, n.
1. A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.
A master that gives you . . . twinges by the ears.
--L' Estrange.
2. A sudden sharp pain; a darting local pain of momentary
continuance; as a twinge in the arm or side `` A twinge
for my own sin.'' --Dryden.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
twinge
n 1: sudden sharp painful emotion; "pangs of regret" or "twinges
of conscience" [syn: {pang}]
2: a sharp stab of pain
v 1: cause a stinging pain [syn: {prick}, {sting}]
2: feel a sudden sharp, local pain
3: squeeze tightly between the fingers; "He pinched her
behind"; "She squeezed the bottle" [syn: {pinch}, {vellicate},
{squeeze}, {tweet}, {nip}, {twitch}]
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