Twig (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. [Twigged] (?); p. pr. & vb. n. [Twigging].] [Cf. [Tweak].]

To twitch; to pull; to tweak.

[Obs. or Scot.]

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Twig, v. t. [Gael. tuig, or Ir. tuigim I understand.]

1.

To understand the meaning of; to comprehend; as, do you twig me?

[Colloq.]

Marryat.

2.

To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover.

"Now twig him; now mind him."

Foote.

As if he were looking right into your eyes and twigged something there which you had half a mind to conceal. Hawthorne.

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Twig, n. [AS. twig; akin to D. twijg, OHG. zwig, zwi, G. zweig, and probably to E. two.]

A small shoot or branch of a tree or other plant, of no definite length or size.

The Britons had boats made of willow twigs, covered on the outside with hides. Sir T. Raleigh.

[Twig borer] [Zoology|Zool.], any one of several species of small beetles which bore into twigs of shrubs and trees, as the apple-tree twig borer (Amphicerus bicaudatus). -- [Twig girdler]. [Zoology|Zool.] See [Girdler], 3. -- [Twig rush] [Botany|Bot.], any rushlike plant of the genus Cladium having hard, and sometimes prickly-edged, leaves or stalks. See [Saw grass], under [Saw].

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Twig, v. t.

To beat with twigs.

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Twig (definition)