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Webster 1913 Edition

Twinge

Twinge

(twĭnj)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Twinged
(twĭnjd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Twinging
.]
[OE.
twengen
, AS.
twengan
; akin to OE.
twingen
to pain, afflict, OFries.
thwinga
,
twinga
,
dwinga
, to constrain, D.
dwingen
, OS.
thwingan
, G.
zwingen
, OHG.
dwingan
,
thwingan
, to press, oppress, overcome, Icel.
þvinga
, Sw.
tvinga
to subdue, constrain, Dan.
tvinge
, and AS.
þün
to press, OHG.
dūhen
, and probably to E.
thong
. Perhaps influenced by
twitch
. Cf.
Thong
.]
1.
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.
Hudibras.
2.
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.
L'Estrange.

Twinge

,
Verb.
I.
To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain;
as, the side
twinges
.

Twinge

,
Noun.
1.
A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.
A master that gives you . . .
twinges
by the ears.
L' Estrange.
2.
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.”
Dryden.

Webster 1828 Edition

Twinge

TWINGE

,
Verb.
T.
twinj.
1.
To affect with a sharp sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.
The gnat twinged the lion till he made him tear himself, and so he mastered him.
2.
To pinch; to tweak; to pull with a jerk; as, to twinge one by the ears and nose.

TWINGE

,
Verb.
T.
twinj. to have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen spasmodic or shooting pain; as, the side twinges. [This is the sense in which this word is generally used within the limits of my acquaintance.

TWINGE

,
Noun.
twinj. A sudden sharp pain; a darting local pain of momentary continuance; as a twinge in the arm or side.
1.
A sharp rebuke of conscience.
2.
A pinch; a tweak; as a twinge of the ear.

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