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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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Etymology of 'Twinge'

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"Twinge" Quotes from Famous Books

... It would have been a low-level pulse, of course; but even a low-level pulse, arriving unexpectedly, was a very unpleasant surprise. He had foreseen the spokesman's action, had, in fact, felt a sympathetic imaginary twinge in his own right hand as ...

— Oneness • James H. Schmitz

... come wi' me, my dear," cried Dan to the lass as she clung to him, and I had a twinge of jealousy that I ...

— The McBrides - A Romance of Arran • John Sillars

... red-faced, white-headed old gentleman, with something of the old soldier in his air, and (when he came to speak), a good deal of him in his words. He sat in a great chair, with one foot swaddled on a stool before him; and the oaths with which he greeted each twinge as it came, boded ill for us ...

— Sir Ludar - A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess • Talbot Baines Reed

... with a heavy thud, and did not move again. The ball had penetrated his brain, and he was the victim of his unscientific observations. But the lieutenant did not remove his gaze from the open window. It seemed very like slaughter to shoot down the enemy in this manner, and a twinge of conscience disturbed him. But he reasoned that he had given the ruffians a chance to surrender, which they had refused to accept. Then they were pirates, robbers, making war for gain ...

— A Lieutenant at Eighteen • Oliver Optic

... a history and not a glorification of Mr. Polly, and I tell of things as they were with him. Apart from the disagreeable twinge arising from the thought of what might happen if he was found out, he had not the slightest remorse about that fire. Arson, after all, is an artificial crime. Some crimes are crimes in themselves, would be ...

— The History of Mr. Polly • H. G. Wells

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