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twinging |
1 definition found 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.
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