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▪ I. twitchy, a.1|ˈtwɪtʃɪ|
[f. twitch v.1 + -y.]
1. Characterized by twitching; having a tendency to twitch; also, nervous, fidgety, irritable; also said of a smile.
1839Fraser's Mag. XX. 671 Her lips were long, loose, and twitchy. 1861Dickens in All Year Round IV. 457 Faces peculiarly swollen, and twitchy about the nose. 1874A. J. C. Hare Story of my Life (1900) IV. xvii. 245 An excellent person, but very nervous and twitchy. 1898Talmage Serm. in N.Y. Chr. Herald 27 Apr. 368/3 Your nerves will become more twitchy and your dyspepsia more aggravated. 1924W. M. Raine Troubled Waters xx. 221 When she said goodbye to him it was with a wan twitchy little smile on her face.
2. Mining. Cf. twitch n.1 4, v.1 5.
1747Hooson Miner's Dict. R ij b, Many good Veins that..have been wrought to a vast Depth, yet it is found in the end to grow hard and Twitchey on the Soles.
Hence ˈtwitchiness, the state or condition of being twitchy; nervousness, fidgetiness, irritability.
1933J. Thurber My Life & Hard Times p. xv, This type of writing is..the manifestation of a twitchiness at once cosmic and mundane. 1984Times 23 Mar. 12/6 (heading) Twitchiness in the president's camp.
Add:[1.] b. Of a motor vehicle, etc.: tending to judder slightly or veer momentarily sideways, esp. at high speed; that handles unstably or unpredictably. colloq.
1985Truck & Driver June 44/1 Bos' Scania looked decidedly twitchy as it slowed for the sharp bends at Paddock. 1987Pilots Internat. Mar. 11/1 The R22..is a very sensitive machine, one could even call it slightly twitchy in the wrong hands. 1990Autoweek 24 Sept. 42/3 While ride and handling are improved enormously at low and moderate speeds, the car's still twitchy and nervous if you press hard on a winding road.
▪ II. twitchy, a.2|ˈtwɪtʃɪ|
[f. twitch n.2 + -y.]
Full of or infested with twitch; made of twitch.
1653W. Blithe Eng. Improv. Impr. xxviii. (ed. 3) 193 If upon a stony land, or twichy woody Land, it must be narrower. Ibid. 196 Lands..hard rooty, rushy, twichy, or any way unfeacible. 1829Glover's Hist. Derby I. 195 He ploughs twitchy lands but once. c1837Clare To the Lark iii. in Life & Rem. (1873) 137 How beautiful to see thee..Winnowing thy russet wings above thy twitchy nest. |