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noun

Twinge n.

A pinch; a tweak; a twitch. "A master that gives you... twinges by the ears."

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."

verb

Twinge v. t. (past & past part. twinged; pres. part. twinging)

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."

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."

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.

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"Twinge" Quotes from Famous Books

... when they rode away, the men on the ranch watching, and perhaps each feeling in his heart a little twinge, as though he'd like to be a kid again, and up to some such boyish prank. Whitey was on Monty, Injun on his pinto, leading a pack-horse laden with their few belongings. From the corral the intelligent ...

— Injun and Whitey to the Rescue • William S. Hart

... up by an attendant. He walked slowly, with a sort of dignified movement, stepping out broadly, and planting his feet (on which were red shoes) flat upon the pavement, as if he were not much accustomed to locomotion, and perhaps had known a twinge of the gout. His face was kindly and venerable, but not particularly impressive. Arriving at the scarlet-covered prie-dieu, he kneeled down and took off his white skull-cap; the cardinals also kneeled behind and on either side of him, taking off their scarlet skull-caps; while the ...

— Passages From the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... thy heart—even if so be she not thine, nor not nearly thine—comport herself with another as she does with thee—ah! that gives a twinge to the masculine heart. Nay, lesser things than this will perturb this irascible organ: that the other should admire her charms—that she should accept such admiration. . . .. yet what cares she that these ...

— Hints for Lovers • Arnold Haultain

... with a twinge of reminiscence that recalled the study of Louisiana on paper with his father ...

— The Grandissimes • George Washington Cable

... indeed that she indulged in merry-making away from the parsonage. Yet she was fond of gaiety. Long before one o'clock on that eventful day, she was ready. And her face was so bright, and her eyes so starry, that placid self-satisfied Fairy felt a twinge of something ...

— Prudence of the Parsonage • Ethel Hueston

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