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Tweak   /twik/   Listen
noun
Tweak  n.  
1.
A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch; as, a tweak of the nose.
2.
Trouble; distress; tweag. (Obs.)
3.
A prostitute. (Obs.)


verb
Tweak  v. t.  To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch; as, to tweak the nose.





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"Tweak" Quotes from Famous Books



... young man slowly removed his two hands from the woolly polls of the slaves, but as he suffered them to fall reluctantly along their sable temples, he gave the ear of one of the blacks a tweak that caused him to give vent to another cry, that was uttered with a much greater ...
— The Pilot • J. Fenimore Cooper
... recognised the voice of Mr. Gibson, the secretary. He knew that the secretary had a way of going about as soft-footed as a cat. He tried to jerk his ear free, but at that Mr. Gibson gave it such a tweak that Tode could hardly keep from crying out with the pain. He did keep from it, however, and the next moment the secretary let him go, and, striking a match, lit the gas, and then ...
— The Bishop's Shadow • I. T. Thurston
... to tweak him. It was time, he thought, that Keating should be aroused and brought up to the reviving air of the sea, but when he reached the foot of the companion-ladder, he found that Keating was already awake and in the act of drawing the cork from a ...
— Ranson's Folly • Richard Harding Davis
... murmured back, when her comfortable laugh had gurgled itself out, "young folks must skit-skat and bicker, or where would be the making up? La, I'm sure when I was a girl I used to tweak my poor Silas's nose for the love of making him angry—Silas had a long nose, my dear, as you may remember. Men hate to be tweaked, especially on their weak points. My Silas was always silly about his nose. And we never had less than half-an-hour's ...
— The Hound From The North • Ridgwell Cullum
... in duty bound not to move his hand, but he so far relaxed as to allow the tips of two of his fingers to crook downwards and give the plump round arm of the wench a good tweak. ...
— The Day of Wrath • Maurus Jokai


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