twinge

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English

Etymology

From Middle English twengen, from Old English twenġan (“to pinch, squeeze, twinge”), from Proto-West Germanic *twangijan, from Proto-Germanic *twangijaną (“to jam, pinch”), causative of Proto-Germanic *twinganą (“to press, clamp”), of uncertain origin, but probably related to *þwangiz (“belt, strap, clamp”). See also Old High German zwengen (“to pinch”), Old English twingan (“to press, force”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /twɪnd͡ʒ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɪndʒ

Verb

twinge (third-person singular simple present twinges, present participle twingeing or twinging, simple past and past participle twinged)

  1. (transitive) To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.
  2. (transitive) To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.
  3. (intransitive) To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain.
    My side twinges.

Noun

twinge (plural twinges)

  1. A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.
  2. A sudden sharp pain.
    I got a twinge in my arm.
    • 1935, Francis Beeding, “7/2”, in The Norwich Victims‎:
      The two Gordon setters came obediently to heel. Sir Oswald Feiling winced as he turned to go home. He had felt a warning twinge of lumbago.

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