Definition of "twinge"

twinge

/twɪnd͡ʒ/

verb
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.
  Quotations
  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.
  1662, [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge: University Press, 1905
2. (transitive) To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.
  Quotations
  The gnat […] Twing'd him, till he made him Tear himself with his own Paws, and in the Conclusion he Master'd the Lion
  1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […]
3. (intransitive) To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain.
noun
plural twinges
1. A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.
2. A sudden sharp pain.
  Quotations
  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.
  1935, Francis Beeding, “7/2”, in The Norwich Victims‎

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