tweakn.¹

Brit.

/twiːk/, U.S.

/twik/

Forms: see tweak v.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: tweak v.

Etymology: < tweak v.With sense 3 compare earlier twitch n.¹ 2 and twinge n. 2, and later tweak v. 4.

1. An act of tweaking something, esp. a part of the body; a sharp pull, pinch, or twist.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > striking > striking in specific manner > [noun] > tweaking or a tweak

tweak1616

tweaking1616

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > [noun] > action of expressing contempt > by gesture > specific gesture

ficoa1577

fig1579

tweak1616

V-sign1948

two fingers1971

Harvey Smith1973

1616 B. Jonson Epicœne iv. v, in Wks. I. 582 Hee will..make you beare a blow, ouer the mouth,..and tweakes by the nose, sans numbre .

1738 Common Sense II. 106 They may be drawn out of their Sockets with a moderate Tweag.

1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vi. vi. 132 [He] was courteously dismissed with a tweak of the nose, to assist him in recollecting his message.

1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. ix. 251 A severe tweak of the ear.

1883 Mag. of Art June 309/2 Tweaks and slaps and pinches.

1890 W. C. Russell My Shipmate Louise I. v. 85 Oh mamma, she cried, making a step to catch hold of her mother's gown, and to give it a tweak.

1975 E. Dunlop Robinsheugh (1987) xiv. 124 Robin gave her hair a friendly tweak, and they climbed to the landing.

2009 M. Fergus Recipe for Disaster v. 75 ‘Be nice to my bird,’ Nana warned, giving my ear a sharp tweak.

†2. A state of anger, agitation, or perplexity. Chiefly in in a tweak. Obsolete.

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the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > [adverb] > in state of nervous excitement

out1598

in a tweak1699

(all) in, all of a tremble1769

on or upon the tremble1800

on the tittup (also on tittups)1873

aflutter1886

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Tweak, in a Tweak, in a heavy taking,..very angry.

1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses vi. 25 This put the Old Fellow in a rare Tweag [1755 tweague]!

?1714 E. Ward Whole Pleasures of Matrimony i. 18 This puts the young Gentlewoman into such a Tweague, that she can do nothing all Day, nor sleep all Night.

1715 C. Molloy Perplex'd Couple v. i. 61 You're in a devilish Tweague, for fear of losing your Gallant, are ye?

1779 J. Warner in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1844) IV. 12 What a tweague and a taking you would be in.

1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 363 Tweak, Irritable impatience. ‘What a tweak she's in!’.

3. A sudden, sharp, localized pain; a twinge.

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1755 J. N. Scott Bailey's Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (new ed.) at Twinge A short, sudden, sharp pain, a tweak, a pinch.

1879 Christopher Columbus & David Teniers ii. 15 Rather a sharp gouty tweak in his only remaining foot having at last awoke the admiral, he opened his eyes.

1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire 413 I'd a bit of a tweak o' bally-warch.

1922 Youth's Compan. 28 Sept. 554/4 She felt a sharp tweak in her right foot and, looking down, saw that her shoe was unbuckled.

2013 Daily Mirror (Ireland ed.) (Nexis) 26 Apr. (Sport section) When he felt a tweak in the hamstring a couple of weeks ago he took a two-game break.

4. A small change, adjustment, or modification, esp. one that improves or refines.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > [noun] > change within limits, variation, or modification > instance of > made to something

twerk1940

retrofit1951

tweak1974

1974 Automobile Q. 12 401 Jim was happy with having Andy Granatelli..perform useful engine tweaks to the cars he owned.

1985 Observer 8 Dec. 37/2 He plans further ‘tweaks’ to the scheme, which he believes will make it ‘really unbeatable’.

1986 N.Z. Listener 15 Feb. 46/3 Body tweaks include body-colour-painted urethane bumpers..and new Jan Beck interiors.

2004 Retro Gamer No. 10. 78/2 Other minor revisions and tweaks were continually being made, especially as further conversions to other formats were being written.

2007 Wisconsin State Jrnl. (Nexis) 18 Feb. a2 They are still making final tweaks to the movie, but they plan to complete it in time to enter it in film festivals.

5. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). Also in form tweek. Methamphetamine or (occasionally) crack cocaine.

ΚΠ

1986 San Francisco Chron. 2 July 6/5 When you go out to buy cocaine, you're on ‘a tweek mission’.

1995 N. L. Keltner et al. Psychiatric Nursing xxix. 524/2 As one young user of tweak put it: ‘One line can get you going. You get this amped feeling.’

2012 M. E. Monahan College Boy 143 In addition to steroids, the guy was most definitely on tweek.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).

† tweakn.²

Forms: Also 1600s tweake.

Etymology: ? < tweak n.¹ or tweak v.

Obsolete slang.

A harlot; ‘also, a whoremonger’ (Halliwell).

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute

meretrixOE

whoreOE

soiled dovea1250

common womanc1330

putec1384

bordel womanc1405

putaina1425

brothelc1450

harlot?a1475

public womanc1510

naughty pack?1529

draba1533

cat1535

strange woman1535

stew1552

causey-paikera1555

putanie?1566

drivelling1570

twigger1573

punka1575

hackney1579

customer1583

commodity1591

streetwalker1591

traffic1591

trug1591

hackster1592

polecat1593

stale1593

mermaid1595

medlar1597

occupant1598

Paphian1598

Winchester goose1598

pagan1600

hell-moth1602

aunt1604

moll1604

prostitution1605

community1606

miss1606

night-worm1606

bat1607

croshabell1607

prostitute1607

pug1607

venturer1607

nag1608

curtal1611

jumbler1611

land-frigate1611

walk-street1611

doll-common1612

turn-up1612

barber's chaira1616

commonera1616

public commonera1616

trader1615

venturea1616

stewpot1616

tweak1617

carry-knave1623

prostibule1623

fling-dusta1625

mar-taila1625

night-shadea1625

waistcoateera1625

night trader1630

coolera1632

meretrician1631

painted ladya1637

treadle1638

buttock1641

night-walker1648

mob?1650

lady (also girl, etc.) of the game1651

lady of pleasure1652

trugmullion1654

fallen woman1659

girlc1662

high-flyer1663

fireship1665

quaedama1670

small girl1671

visor-mask1672

vizard-mask1672

bulker1673

marmalade-madam1674

town miss1675

town woman1675

lady of the night1677

mawks1677

fling-stink1679

Whetstone whore1684

man-leech1687

nocturnal1693

hack1699

strum1699

fille de joie1705

market-dame1706

screw1725

girl of (the) town1733

Cytherean1751

street girl1764

monnisher1765

lady of easy virtue1766

woman (also lady) of the town1766

kennel-nymph1771

chicken1782

stargazer1785

loose fish1809

receiver general1811

Cyprian1819

mollya1822

dolly-mop1834

hooker1845

charver1846

tail1846

horse-breaker1861

professional1862

flagger1865

cocodette1867

cocotte1867

queen's woman1871

common prostitute1875

joro1884

geisha1887

horizontal1888

flossy1893

moth1896

girl of the pavement1900

pross1902

prossie1902

pusher1902

split-arse mechanic1903

broad1914

shawl1922

bum1923

quiff1923

hustler1924

lady of the evening1924

prostie1926

working girl1928

prostisciutto1930

maggie1932

brass1934

brass nail1934

mud kicker1934

scupper1935

model1936

poule de luxe1937

pro1937

chromo1941

Tom1941

pan-pan1949

twopenny upright1958

scrubber1959

slack1959

yum-yum girl1960

Suzie Wong1962

mattress1964

jamette1965

ho1966

sex worker1971

pavement princess1976

parlour girl1979

crack whore1990

1617 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Faire Quarrell (new ed.) iv. sig. H*3 Your Tweakes are like your Mer-maydes, they haue sweet voyces to entice the passengers.

1631 R. Brathwait Cater-character ii. 10 in Whimzies Hee sometimes playes the witty Satyrist, and displayes light Tweakes in loose roabes.

1638 R. Brathwait Barnabees Journall (new ed.) i. sig. D6 An apt one To be Tweake unto a Captaine.

1638 R. Brathwait Barnabees Journall (new ed.) iii. sig. R7 From the bushes neare the Lane there Rush'd a Tweake in gesture flanting.

1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth III. 146 If any man here be in bodily fear, Of a Wolf, a Wife or a Tweak.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

tweakv.

Brit.

/twiːk/, U.S.

/twik/

Forms:

α. 1600s tweake, 1600s tweke, 1600s– tweak, 1800s twaik (English regional (Shropshire)), 1800s– tweek (now often in sense 8).

β. 1600s–1700s (1800s English regional (northern and Shropshire)) tweag, 1700s tweague, 1800s twage (English regional (northern and Shropshire)), 1800s twague (Irish English).

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: twick v.

Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps a variant of twick v. (perhaps resulting from Middle English lengthening of vowels in open syllables). Compare earlier twitch v.¹ and twinge v.¹With the β. forms compare twig v.³ With use with reference to pain (see sense 4) compare earlier tweak n.¹ 3 and twinge v.¹ 2. With use with reference to the use of a slingshot (see sense 5) compare earlier tweaker n. 2. With use in cricket (see sense 6) compare earlier twist v. 14b and also tweaker n. 3.

†1. transitive. To press or pinch (the lips) together. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xi. xxiv. 324 These Spiders hunt also after the yong Lizards: first they enfold and wrap the head within their web: then, they catch hold and tweake [Fr. empoignant; L. apprehendentes] both their lips together, and so bite and pinch them.

a. transitive. To twist, pull, or pinch (something) sharply or forcefully; spec. to twist or pull (a part of a person's body, esp. the nose) sharply or contemptuously; to seize (a person) by a body part and twist or pull. In later use also: to pinch or tug (a part of the body) gently, affectionately, or playfully.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)] > express contempt of > by gesture

finger-point1563

to bite the thumb at1573

fig1600

tweak1604

to make horns at1607

rump1737

to snap one's fingers at1806

to give (a person) the finger1874

scuff1897

the world > movement > impact > striking > striking in specific manner > strike in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > tweak

twingec1000

tweak1604

α.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 576 Who cals me villaine..Twekes me by the nose, giues me the lie i' th thraote.

1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxvi. 237 He seized me by the nose, which he tweaked so unmercifully that I roared with anguish.

1795 J. Wolcot Hair Powder in Wks. (1812) III. 305 With hot pincers tweak each nose and ear!

1887 W. C. Russell Frozen Pirate I. x. 143 Steadying the body with one hand, I heartily tweaked the coat with the other, hoping thus to rupture the ice upon it.

1911 C. E. Laughlin Children of To-morrow x. 165 She smiled and tweaked his ear.

1923 R. Herrick Homely Lilla i. 9 ‘Oh, I guess she'll get along same as others,’ her father said easily, tweaking one of Lilla's pigtails.

2007 L. Fox Private Members (e-book ed.) Astrid took hold of one end of Hugh's moustache and tweaked it hard.

β. 1677 E. Coles Dict. Eng.-Lat. (at cited word) To tweag, Summis digitis premere, comprimere, vellicare.1685 J. Crowne Sir Courtly Nice iii. 22 I'le not only Libel him, but tweag him by the Nose, Kick him, Cudgel him.1755 J. Shebbeare Lydia (1769) II. 139 Sweetwood stretched forth his hand and tweaged his nose.1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. Tweag.., to tweak.

b. transitive. With adverb or preposition, as off, out, from, etc.: to cause (something) to move in the specified direction by pulling or jerking sharply or forcefully; to pluck, yank.

ΚΠ

1685 S. Wesley Maggots 71 Look over thy Shoulder, and 'tweak off their Down.

1838 C. G. Addison Damascus & Palmyra I. viii. 200 Some were having their heads shaved, some their beards and moustachios trimmed, and some the hair tweaked out of their noses with a pair of tweezers.

1889 R. Broughton Red as Rose (new ed.) v. 36 How much pleasanter to be out of doors, tweaking off dead rose heads.

1991 A. Granger Season for Murder (1992) i. 18 With idle curiosity Meredith went to the window and tweaked the curtain aside to peer out.

2006 D. Court Dollmaker's Daughters (2009) i. 21 One of the urchins tugged at her shawl, tweaking it from her shoulders.

c. intransitive. To twist, pull, or pinch something sharply or forcefully; to tug or pull at something. Chiefly with at.

ΚΠ

1691 T. Shadwell Scowrers iv. 41 They tweak damnably hard though.

1856 Western Times (Exeter) 20 Sept. 5/3 Wirebrook had first pressed upon her in the booking office, and afterwards had tweaked at her pocket on the platform.

1955 B. Pym Less than Angels (1980) v. 59 Professor Mainwaring tweaked at his beard.

1979 D. Clyne Garden Jungle vi. 141 The male makes four approaches every time he runs around her, tweaking and plucking, never staying still for an instant.

2014 J. Astley It must have been Mistletoe (2015) ii. 22 She tweaked at her dress, pulling it away from her stomach and frowning.

3. figurative.

a. transitive. To trouble, distress, or weigh upon (a person, the heart, conscience, etc.). Also in weakened use: to stimulate, stir (a person); to pique, arouse, spark (interest, curiosity, etc.). Also intransitive.

ΚΠ

1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. To Tweag, to Tweak (tweken, Dutch to pinch), to put into a Fret or Perplexity.

1859 E. Strutt Curate & Rector xlii. 321 His conscience tweaked him, and he felt he was ‘no actor there’.

1907 Manch. Guardian 4 June 7/2 The final statement..of the situation accepted by the lovers tweaked us into a mild interest.

1929 C. Beals Destroying Victor i. 13 A sense of having been defrauded tweaked at him.

1993 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 26 Aug. (Sports & Leisure section) h2 Ross credits her high school coaches..for tweaking her interest in volleyball when she was a Grade 9 student.

2014 D. Druzy Sleeping with Santa (e-book, accessed 21 July 2021) Guilt tweaked her heart.

b. transitive. North American. To tease, make fun of (a person); to taunt, mock.

ΚΠ

1895 T. J. Jerome Ku-Klux Klan No. 40 xv. 205 I must confess that it does kinder stick a pin in my gizzard to tweak me about that little skirmish at the court-house.

1973 C. Blaise in M. Atwood & R. Weaver Oxf. Bk. Canad. Short Stories (1986) 341 He..tweaked his colleagues for not sympathizing enough with Quebec separatism.

2003 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 2 Aug. 13 McCain tweaked his rival: ‘His ideas are not always as impressive as his rhetoric.’

4. transitive. To cause (a part of the body) to twinge; to injure slightly.

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1871 C. A. Stephens Guess xii, in Ballou's Monthly Mag. July 85/1 He wasn't hurt much. Bumped his head and tweaked his ankle a little.

1990 Tennis July 94/3 Standing up you may tweak your knee.

2001 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 8 Oct. d2/2 He tweaked his hamstring, but I knew he'd say he could play.

†5. transitive. slang. To hit (a person or thing) with a missile from a slingshot. Cf. tweaker n. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > assail with missiles [verb (transitive)] > cast (missiles) by sling > shoot with sling or catapult

slinga1225

catapult1883

tweak1898

1898 R. Kipling Stalky & Co. in Windsor Mag. Dec. 35/1 Corkran, through the roof, scientifically ‘tweaked’ a frisky heifer on the nose.

1913 G. G. Desmond Roll of Seasons (rev. ed.) 397 The boy drew to within ten yards and tweaked him with his catapult.

6. transitive. Cricket. colloquial. Of a bowler: to impart spin to (a ball).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > bowl [verb (transitive)] > bowl in specific manner

twist1816

overthrow1833

to bowl over the wicket1851

overpitch1851

bump1869

york1882

to break a ball1884

flog1884

to bowl round (or formerly outside) the wicket1887

turn1898

flick1902

curl1904

spin1904

volley1909

flight1912

to give (a ball) air1920

tweak1935

move1938

overspin1940

swing1948

bounce1960

cut1960

seam1963

dolly1985

1935 [implied in: Times 18 July 6/1 The score was 13 when Sims, a tweaker with possibilities, came on in place of Bowes.].

1936 Times 9 May 6/1 They were still 140 runs behind.., with Bowes making the ball fly and Sims tweaking it.

1958 D. Bradman Art of Cricket 94/1 My pal..R. W. V. Robins, tweaked his leg breaks so hard that he left the ground altogether with both feet.

1998 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) (Nexis) 6 July (Sport section) 18 If you tweaked the ball sufficiently there was spin there.

2020 Guardian (Electronic ed.) (Nexis) 8 Sept. Zampa sees him coming, tweaking his first ball just that little bit harder than usual so that when it bounces higher he doesn't get all of it.

7. transitive. To make fine adjustments to (something); spec. to make a minor improvement to.In early use chiefly with reference to cars.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > adaptation or adjustment > adapt or adjust [verb (transitive)] > adjust for use or smooth operation > make fine adjustments to

fine-tune1959

tweak1962

1962 Practitioner Feb. a106/1 (advt.) Its Classic engine has been tweaked to give 70 brake horse-power.

1978 Gramophone May 1960/1 It was possible to improve its performance very considerably by ‘tweaking’ the internal pre-set controls.

1991 Time 21 Oct. 100/1 Every year the architect spent tweaking his design only raised the stakes higher.

2019 TechSpot (Nexis) 2 July The company has been tweaking its algorithm to recognize exaggerated claims such as miracle cures.

8. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). Also in form tweek. Frequently with out.

a. intransitive. To become agitated, twitchy, or overstimulated, esp. from taking methamphetamine or another stimulant. Hence also: to take or be under the influence of a drug. Cf. to freak out at freak v. 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > effects of drugs > be under influence of drugs [verb (intransitive)]

to have a heat on1912

buzz1927

to be on1938

to string out1967

tweak1981

the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > be in state of nervous excitement [verb (intransitive)]

to take ona1450

seethe1609

trepidate1623

to take on oneself1632

flutter1668

pother1715

to be upon the nettle (also in a nettle)1723

to be nerve all over1778

to be all nerve1819

to be (all) on wires1824

to break up1825

to carry on1828

to be on (occasionally upon or on the) edge1872

faff1874

to have kittens1900

flap1910

to be in, get in(to), a flap1939

to go sparec1942

to keep (also blow, lose) one's cool1964

faffle1965

to get one's knickers in a twist1971

to have a canary1971

to wet one's pants1979

tweak1981

1981 Mountain Democrat & Placerville (Calif.) Times 28 Dec. a20/2 I just totally tweeked out from there on in.

1985 ‘J. Blowdryer’ Mod. Eng. 81 When everybody is on speed, they are tweakin' out on speed.

1991 E. Currie Dope & Trouble ii. ii. 108 I'd start tweaking but not like real heavy? And then like all these peanuts were falling down. It was weird... What were you tweaking on?.. Camouflage. You know what that is? It's a kind of acid.

2003 H. Woodbury What Ever iii. x. 120 Okay. Let's tweak.

2007 Farmington (New Mexico) Daily Times (Nexis) 23 Aug. She started self-medicating with meth and just tweaked out.

b. transitive. Of methamphetamine or another stimulant: to cause (a person) to become agitated, twitchy, or overstimulated. Also more generally: to freak (a person) out; to cause (a person) to panic.

ΚΠ

1985 Los Angeles Times 4 June (San Diego Co. section) v6/1 Other kids seem to look up to me because I make crystal meth and have been successful at it... Mentally, I'm just about tweaked to the max all the time.

1993 Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) (Nexis) 10 Dec. 34 After all, being proclaimed a rock 'n' roll savior is bound to tweak you out after a while.

2007 A. Cunningham tr. T. Kai Chibi Vampire I. i. 28 Imagine being barely able to remember anything because of the chloroform.., then having to answer a bunch of questions about it. The very idea tweaks me out.

Phrases

to tweak the nose (also tail) of: to deliberately tease, annoy, or antagonize (a person, group, etc.), esp. in order to provoke a reaction. Similarly to tweak (a person's or thing's) nose (also tail) in the same sense.Cf. to twist the tail and to pull (also yank, jerk) a person's chain.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > be annoyed or vexed by [verb (transitive)] > annoy or vex

gremec893

dretchc900

awhenec1000

teenOE

fretc1290

annoyc1300

atrayc1320

encumberc1330

diseasec1340

grindc1350

distemperc1386

offenda1387

arra1400

avexa1400

derea1400

miscomforta1400

angerc1400

engrievec1400

vex1418

molesta1425

entrouble?1435

destroublea1450

poina1450

rubc1450

to wring (a person) on the mailsc1450

disprofit1483

agrea1492

trouble1515

grig1553

mis-set?1553

nip?1553

grate1555

gripe1559

spitec1563

fike?1572

gall1573

corsie1574

corrosive1581

touch1581

disaccommodate1586

macerate1588

perplex1590

thorn1592

exulcerate1593

plague1595

incommode1598

affret1600

brier1601

to gall or tread on (one's) kibes1603

discommodate1606

incommodate1611

to grate on or upon1631

disincommodate1635

shog1636

ulcerate1647

incommodiate1650

to put (a person) out of his (her, etc.) way1653

discommodiate1654

discommode1657

ruffle1659

regrate1661

disoblige1668

torment1718

pesta1729

chagrin1734

pingle1740

bothera1745

potter1747

wherrit1762

to tweak the nose of1784

to play up1803

tout1808

rasp1810

outrage1818

worrit1818

werrit1825

buggerlug1850

taigle1865

get1867

to give a person the pip1881

to get across ——1888

nark1888

eat1893

to twist the tail1895

dudgeon1906

to tweak the tail of1909

sore1929

to put up1930

wouldn't it rip you!1941

sheg1943

to dick around1944

cheese1946

to pee off1946

to honk off1970

to fuck off1973

to tweak (a person's or thing's) tail1977

to tweak (a person's or thing's) nose1983

to wind up1984

to dick about1996

to-teen-

1784 P. Skelton Appeal Common Sense VI. 237 Common Sense might be provoked to try the Force of those Arguments by smartly tweaking the nose of that Philosopher.

1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. v. viii. 633 To tweak the nose of his sovereign royalty, and ignominiously force him into another way: that is an enterprise no man or devil..need attempt.

1909 A. Dudeney Rachel Lorian 308 Jeremy..was tweaking the tail of Fate.

1977 Tucson (Arizona) Daily Citizen 14 May 13 a/1 The man who saw him walking thus attired down a Laramie street..couldn't resist tweaking his tail.

1983 P. Dallas Ital. Wines (new ed.) ii. 30 Cynics..tweak Italy's nose, saying that far too many of the US imports are made up of Lambrusco.

2015 TVEyes (Nexis) (transcript of TV programme) 7 Oct. Is this an exercise in good faith or are they just tweaking the tail of the West here?

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).

n.¹1616

n.²1617

v.1601

单词	tweak
释义	tweakn.¹ Brit. /twiːk/, U.S. /twik/ Forms: see tweak v. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: tweak v. Etymology: < tweak v.With sense 3 compare earlier twitch n.¹ 2 and twinge n. 2, and later tweak v. 4. 1. An act of tweaking something, esp. a part of the body; a sharp pull, pinch, or twist. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > striking in specific manner > [noun] > tweaking or a tweak tweak1616 tweaking1616 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > [noun] > action of expressing contempt > by gesture > specific gesture ficoa1577 fig1579 tweak1616 V-sign1948 two fingers1971 Harvey Smith1973 1616 B. Jonson Epicœne iv. v, in Wks. I. 582 Hee will..make you beare a blow, ouer the mouth,..and tweakes by the nose, sans numbre . View more context for this quotation 1738 Common Sense II. 106 They may be drawn out of their Sockets with a moderate Tweag. 1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vi. vi. 132 [He] was courteously dismissed with a tweak of the nose, to assist him in recollecting his message. 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. ix. 251 A severe tweak of the ear. 1883 Mag. of Art June 309/2 Tweaks and slaps and pinches. 1890 W. C. Russell My Shipmate Louise I. v. 85 Oh mamma, she cried, making a step to catch hold of her mother's gown, and to give it a tweak. 1975 E. Dunlop Robinsheugh (1987) xiv. 124 Robin gave her hair a friendly tweak, and they climbed to the landing. 2009 M. Fergus Recipe for Disaster v. 75 ‘Be nice to my bird,’ Nana warned, giving my ear a sharp tweak. †2. A state of anger, agitation, or perplexity. Chiefly in in a tweak. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > [adverb] > in state of nervous excitement out1598 in a tweak1699 (all) in, all of a tremble1769 on or upon the tremble1800 on the tittup (also on tittups)1873 aflutter1886 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Tweak, in a Tweak, in a heavy taking,..very angry. 1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses vi. 25 This put the Old Fellow in a rare Tweag [1755 tweague]! ?1714 E. Ward Whole Pleasures of Matrimony i. 18 This puts the young Gentlewoman into such a Tweague, that she can do nothing all Day, nor sleep all Night. 1715 C. Molloy Perplex'd Couple v. i. 61 You're in a devilish Tweague, for fear of losing your Gallant, are ye? 1779 J. Warner in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1844) IV. 12 What a tweague and a taking you would be in. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 363 Tweak, Irritable impatience. ‘What a tweak she's in!’. 3. A sudden, sharp, localized pain; a twinge. ΚΠ 1755 J. N. Scott Bailey's Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (new ed.) at Twinge A short, sudden, sharp pain, a tweak, a pinch. 1879 Christopher Columbus & David Teniers ii. 15 Rather a sharp gouty tweak in his only remaining foot having at last awoke the admiral, he opened his eyes. 1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire 413 I'd a bit of a tweak o' bally-warch. 1922 Youth's Compan. 28 Sept. 554/4 She felt a sharp tweak in her right foot and, looking down, saw that her shoe was unbuckled. 2013 Daily Mirror (Ireland ed.) (Nexis) 26 Apr. (Sport section) When he felt a tweak in the hamstring a couple of weeks ago he took a two-game break. 4. A small change, adjustment, or modification, esp. one that improves or refines. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > [noun] > change within limits, variation, or modification > instance of > made to something twerk1940 retrofit1951 tweak1974 1974 Automobile Q. 12 401 Jim was happy with having Andy Granatelli..perform useful engine tweaks to the cars he owned. 1985 Observer 8 Dec. 37/2 He plans further ‘tweaks’ to the scheme, which he believes will make it ‘really unbeatable’. 1986 N.Z. Listener 15 Feb. 46/3 Body tweaks include body-colour-painted urethane bumpers..and new Jan Beck interiors. 2004 Retro Gamer No. 10. 78/2 Other minor revisions and tweaks were continually being made, especially as further conversions to other formats were being written. 2007 Wisconsin State Jrnl. (Nexis) 18 Feb. a2 They are still making final tweaks to the movie, but they plan to complete it in time to enter it in film festivals. 5. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). Also in form tweek. Methamphetamine or (occasionally) crack cocaine. ΚΠ 1986 San Francisco Chron. 2 July 6/5 When you go out to buy cocaine, you're on ‘a tweek mission’. 1995 N. L. Keltner et al. Psychiatric Nursing xxix. 524/2 As one young user of tweak put it: ‘One line can get you going. You get this amped feeling.’ 2012 M. E. Monahan College Boy 143 In addition to steroids, the guy was most definitely on tweek. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). † tweakn.² Forms: Also 1600s tweake. Etymology: ? < tweak n.¹ or tweak v. Obsolete slang. A harlot; ‘also, a whoremonger’ (Halliwell). ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute meretrixOE whoreOE soiled dovea1250 common womanc1330 putec1384 bordel womanc1405 putaina1425 brothelc1450 harlot?a1475 public womanc1510 naughty pack?1529 draba1533 cat1535 strange woman1535 stew1552 causey-paikera1555 putanie?1566 drivelling1570 twigger1573 punka1575 hackney1579 customer1583 commodity1591 streetwalker1591 traffic1591 trug1591 hackster1592 polecat1593 stale1593 mermaid1595 medlar1597 occupant1598 Paphian1598 Winchester goose1598 pagan1600 hell-moth1602 aunt1604 moll1604 prostitution1605 community1606 miss1606 night-worm1606 bat1607 croshabell1607 prostitute1607 pug1607 venturer1607 nag1608 curtal1611 jumbler1611 land-frigate1611 walk-street1611 doll-common1612 turn-up1612 barber's chaira1616 commonera1616 public commonera1616 trader1615 venturea1616 stewpot1616 tweak1617 carry-knave1623 prostibule1623 fling-dusta1625 mar-taila1625 night-shadea1625 waistcoateera1625 night trader1630 coolera1632 meretrician1631 painted ladya1637 treadle1638 buttock1641 night-walker1648 mob?1650 lady (also girl, etc.) of the game1651 lady of pleasure1652 trugmullion1654 fallen woman1659 girlc1662 high-flyer1663 fireship1665 quaedama1670 small girl1671 visor-mask1672 vizard-mask1672 bulker1673 marmalade-madam1674 town miss1675 town woman1675 lady of the night1677 mawks1677 fling-stink1679 Whetstone whore1684 man-leech1687 nocturnal1693 hack1699 strum1699 fille de joie1705 market-dame1706 screw1725 girl of (the) town1733 Cytherean1751 street girl1764 monnisher1765 lady of easy virtue1766 woman (also lady) of the town1766 kennel-nymph1771 chicken1782 stargazer1785 loose fish1809 receiver general1811 Cyprian1819 mollya1822 dolly-mop1834 hooker1845 charver1846 tail1846 horse-breaker1861 professional1862 flagger1865 cocodette1867 cocotte1867 queen's woman1871 common prostitute1875 joro1884 geisha1887 horizontal1888 flossy1893 moth1896 girl of the pavement1900 pross1902 prossie1902 pusher1902 split-arse mechanic1903 broad1914 shawl1922 bum1923 quiff1923 hustler1924 lady of the evening1924 prostie1926 working girl1928 prostisciutto1930 maggie1932 brass1934 brass nail1934 mud kicker1934 scupper1935 model1936 poule de luxe1937 pro1937 chromo1941 Tom1941 pan-pan1949 twopenny upright1958 scrubber1959 slack1959 yum-yum girl1960 Suzie Wong1962 mattress1964 jamette1965 ho1966 sex worker1971 pavement princess1976 parlour girl1979 crack whore1990 1617 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Faire Quarrell (new ed.) iv. sig. H3 Your Tweakes are like your Mer-maydes, they haue sweet voyces to entice the passengers. 1631 R. Brathwait Cater-character* ii. 10 in Whimzies Hee sometimes playes the witty Satyrist, and displayes light Tweakes in loose roabes. 1638 R. Brathwait Barnabees Journall (new ed.) i. sig. D6 An apt one To be Tweake unto a Captaine. 1638 R. Brathwait Barnabees Journall (new ed.) iii. sig. R7 From the bushes neare the Lane there Rush'd a Tweake in gesture flanting. 1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth III. 146 If any man here be in bodily fear, Of a Wolf, a Wife or a Tweak. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2021). tweakv. Brit. /twiːk/, U.S. /twik/ Forms: α. 1600s tweake, 1600s tweke, 1600s– tweak, 1800s twaik (English regional (Shropshire)), 1800s– tweek (now often in sense 8). β. 1600s–1700s (1800s English regional (northern and Shropshire)) tweag, 1700s tweague, 1800s twage (English regional (northern and Shropshire)), 1800s twague (Irish English). Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: twick v. Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps a variant of twick v. (perhaps resulting from Middle English lengthening of vowels in open syllables). Compare earlier twitch v.¹ and twinge v.¹With the β. forms compare twig v.³ With use with reference to pain (see sense 4) compare earlier tweak n.¹ 3 and twinge v.¹ 2. With use with reference to the use of a slingshot (see sense 5) compare earlier tweaker n. 2. With use in cricket (see sense 6) compare earlier twist v. 14b and also tweaker n. 3. †1. transitive. To press or pinch (the lips) together. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xi. xxiv. 324 These Spiders hunt also after the yong Lizards: first they enfold and wrap the head within their web: then, they catch hold and tweake [Fr. empoignant; L. apprehendentes] both their lips together, and so bite and pinch them. 2. a. transitive. To twist, pull, or pinch (something) sharply or forcefully; spec. to twist or pull (a part of a person's body, esp. the nose) sharply or contemptuously; to seize (a person) by a body part and twist or pull. In later use also: to pinch or tug (a part of the body) gently, affectionately, or playfully. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)] > express contempt of > by gesture finger-point1563 to bite the thumb at1573 fig1600 tweak1604 to make horns at1607 rump1737 to snap one's fingers at1806 to give (a person) the finger1874 scuff1897 the world > movement > impact > striking > striking in specific manner > strike in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > tweak twingec1000 tweak1604 α. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 576 Who cals me villaine..Twekes me by the nose, giues me the lie i' th thraote. View more context for this quotation 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxvi. 237 He seized me by the nose, which he tweaked so unmercifully that I roared with anguish. 1795 J. Wolcot Hair Powder in Wks. (1812) III. 305 With hot pincers tweak each nose and ear! 1887 W. C. Russell Frozen Pirate I. x. 143 Steadying the body with one hand, I heartily tweaked the coat with the other, hoping thus to rupture the ice upon it. 1911 C. E. Laughlin Children of To-morrow x. 165 She smiled and tweaked his ear. 1923 R. Herrick Homely Lilla i. 9 ‘Oh, I guess she'll get along same as others,’ her father said easily, tweaking one of Lilla's pigtails. 2007 L. Fox Private Members (e-book ed.) Astrid took hold of one end of Hugh's moustache and tweaked it hard. β. 1677 E. Coles Dict. Eng.-Lat. (at cited word) To tweag, Summis digitis premere, comprimere, vellicare.1685 J. Crowne Sir Courtly Nice iii. 22 I'le not only Libel him, but tweag him by the Nose, Kick him, Cudgel him.1755 J. Shebbeare Lydia (1769) II. 139 Sweetwood stretched forth his hand and tweaged his nose.1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. Tweag.., to tweak. b. transitive. With adverb or preposition, as off, out, from, etc.: to cause (something) to move in the specified direction by pulling or jerking sharply or forcefully; to pluck, yank. ΚΠ 1685 S. Wesley Maggots 71 Look over thy Shoulder, and 'tweak off their Down. 1838 C. G. Addison Damascus & Palmyra I. viii. 200 Some were having their heads shaved, some their beards and moustachios trimmed, and some the hair tweaked out of their noses with a pair of tweezers. 1889 R. Broughton Red as Rose (new ed.) v. 36 How much pleasanter to be out of doors, tweaking off dead rose heads. 1991 A. Granger Season for Murder (1992) i. 18 With idle curiosity Meredith went to the window and tweaked the curtain aside to peer out. 2006 D. Court Dollmaker's Daughters (2009) i. 21 One of the urchins tugged at her shawl, tweaking it from her shoulders. c. intransitive. To twist, pull, or pinch something sharply or forcefully; to tug or pull at something. Chiefly with at. ΚΠ 1691 T. Shadwell Scowrers iv. 41 They tweak damnably hard though. 1856 Western Times (Exeter) 20 Sept. 5/3 Wirebrook had first pressed upon her in the booking office, and afterwards had tweaked at her pocket on the platform. 1955 B. Pym Less than Angels (1980) v. 59 Professor Mainwaring tweaked at his beard. 1979 D. Clyne Garden Jungle vi. 141 The male makes four approaches every time he runs around her, tweaking and plucking, never staying still for an instant. 2014 J. Astley It must have been Mistletoe (2015) ii. 22 She tweaked at her dress, pulling it away from her stomach and frowning. 3. figurative. a. transitive. To trouble, distress, or weigh upon (a person, the heart, conscience, etc.). Also in weakened use: to stimulate, stir (a person); to pique, arouse, spark (interest, curiosity, etc.). Also intransitive. ΚΠ 1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. To Tweag, to Tweak (tweken, Dutch to pinch), to put into a Fret or Perplexity. 1859 E. Strutt Curate & Rector xlii. 321 His conscience tweaked him, and he felt he was ‘no actor there’. 1907 Manch. Guardian 4 June 7/2 The final statement..of the situation accepted by the lovers tweaked us into a mild interest. 1929 C. Beals Destroying Victor i. 13 A sense of having been defrauded tweaked at him. 1993 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 26 Aug. (Sports & Leisure section) h2 Ross credits her high school coaches..for tweaking her interest in volleyball when she was a Grade 9 student. 2014 D. Druzy Sleeping with Santa (e-book, accessed 21 July 2021) Guilt tweaked her heart. b. transitive. North American. To tease, make fun of (a person); to taunt, mock. ΚΠ 1895 T. J. Jerome Ku-Klux Klan No. 40 xv. 205 I must confess that it does kinder stick a pin in my gizzard to tweak me about that little skirmish at the court-house. 1973 C. Blaise in M. Atwood & R. Weaver Oxf. Bk. Canad. Short Stories (1986) 341 He..tweaked his colleagues for not sympathizing enough with Quebec separatism. 2003 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 2 Aug. 13 McCain tweaked his rival: ‘His ideas are not always as impressive as his rhetoric.’ 4. transitive. To cause (a part of the body) to twinge; to injure slightly. ΚΠ 1871 C. A. Stephens Guess xii, in Ballou's Monthly Mag. July 85/1 He wasn't hurt much. Bumped his head and tweaked his ankle a little. 1990 Tennis July 94/3 Standing up you may tweak your knee. 2001 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 8 Oct. d2/2 He tweaked his hamstring, but I knew he'd say he could play. †5. transitive. slang. To hit (a person or thing) with a missile from a slingshot. Cf. tweaker n. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > assail with missiles [verb (transitive)] > cast (missiles) by sling > shoot with sling or catapult slinga1225 catapult1883 tweak1898 1898 R. Kipling Stalky & Co. in Windsor Mag. Dec. 35/1 Corkran, through the roof, scientifically ‘tweaked’ a frisky heifer on the nose. 1913 G. G. Desmond Roll of Seasons (rev. ed.) 397 The boy drew to within ten yards and tweaked him with his catapult. 6. transitive. Cricket. colloquial. Of a bowler: to impart spin to (a ball). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > bowl [verb (transitive)] > bowl in specific manner twist1816 overthrow1833 to bowl over the wicket1851 overpitch1851 bump1869 york1882 to break a ball1884 flog1884 to bowl round (or formerly outside) the wicket1887 turn1898 flick1902 curl1904 spin1904 volley1909 flight1912 to give (a ball) air1920 tweak1935 move1938 overspin1940 swing1948 bounce1960 cut1960 seam1963 dolly1985 1935 [implied in: Times 18 July 6/1 The score was 13 when Sims, a tweaker with possibilities, came on in place of Bowes.]. 1936 Times 9 May 6/1 They were still 140 runs behind.., with Bowes making the ball fly and Sims tweaking it. 1958 D. Bradman Art of Cricket 94/1 My pal..R. W. V. Robins, tweaked his leg breaks so hard that he left the ground altogether with both feet. 1998 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) (Nexis) 6 July (Sport section) 18 If you tweaked the ball sufficiently there was spin there. 2020 Guardian (Electronic ed.) (Nexis) 8 Sept. Zampa sees him coming, tweaking his first ball just that little bit harder than usual so that when it bounces higher he doesn't get all of it. 7. transitive. To make fine adjustments to (something); spec. to make a minor improvement to.In early use chiefly with reference to cars. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > adaptation or adjustment > adapt or adjust [verb (transitive)] > adjust for use or smooth operation > make fine adjustments to fine-tune1959 tweak1962 1962 Practitioner Feb. a106/1 (advt.) Its Classic engine has been tweaked to give 70 brake horse-power. 1978 Gramophone May 1960/1 It was possible to improve its performance very considerably by ‘tweaking’ the internal pre-set controls. 1991 Time 21 Oct. 100/1 Every year the architect spent tweaking his design only raised the stakes higher. 2019 TechSpot (Nexis) 2 July The company has been tweaking its algorithm to recognize exaggerated claims such as miracle cures. 8. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). Also in form tweek. Frequently with out. a. intransitive. To become agitated, twitchy, or overstimulated, esp. from taking methamphetamine or another stimulant. Hence also: to take or be under the influence of a drug. Cf. to freak out at freak v. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > effects of drugs > be under influence of drugs [verb (intransitive)] to have a heat on1912 buzz1927 to be on1938 to string out1967 tweak1981 the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > be in state of nervous excitement [verb (intransitive)] to take ona1450 seethe1609 trepidate1623 to take on oneself1632 flutter1668 pother1715 to be upon the nettle (also in a nettle)1723 to be nerve all over1778 to be all nerve1819 to be (all) on wires1824 to break up1825 to carry on1828 to be on (occasionally upon or on the) edge1872 faff1874 to have kittens1900 flap1910 to be in, get in(to), a flap1939 to go sparec1942 to keep (also blow, lose) one's cool1964 faffle1965 to get one's knickers in a twist1971 to have a canary1971 to wet one's pants1979 tweak1981 1981 Mountain Democrat & Placerville (Calif.) Times 28 Dec. a20/2 I just totally tweeked out from there on in. 1985 ‘J. Blowdryer’ Mod. Eng. 81 When everybody is on speed, they are tweakin' out on speed. 1991 E. Currie Dope & Trouble ii. ii. 108 I'd start tweaking but not like real heavy? And then like all these peanuts were falling down. It was weird... What were you tweaking on?.. Camouflage. You know what that is? It's a kind of acid. 2003 H. Woodbury What Ever iii. x. 120 Okay. Let's tweak. 2007 Farmington (New Mexico) Daily Times (Nexis) 23 Aug. She started self-medicating with meth and just tweaked out. b. transitive. Of methamphetamine or another stimulant: to cause (a person) to become agitated, twitchy, or overstimulated. Also more generally: to freak (a person) out; to cause (a person) to panic. ΚΠ 1985 Los Angeles Times 4 June (San Diego Co. section) v6/1 Other kids seem to look up to me because I make crystal meth and have been successful at it... Mentally, I'm just about tweaked to the max all the time. 1993 Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) (Nexis) 10 Dec. 34 After all, being proclaimed a rock 'n' roll savior is bound to tweak you out after a while. 2007 A. Cunningham tr. T. Kai Chibi Vampire I. i. 28 Imagine being barely able to remember anything because of the chloroform.., then having to answer a bunch of questions about it. The very idea tweaks me out. Phrases to tweak the nose (also tail) of: to deliberately tease, annoy, or antagonize (a person, group, etc.), esp. in order to provoke a reaction. Similarly to tweak (a person's or thing's) nose (also tail) in the same sense.Cf. to twist the tail and to pull (also yank, jerk) a person's chain. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > be annoyed or vexed by [verb (transitive)] > annoy or vex gremec893 dretchc900 awhenec1000 teenOE fretc1290 annoyc1300 atrayc1320 encumberc1330 diseasec1340 grindc1350 distemperc1386 offenda1387 arra1400 avexa1400 derea1400 miscomforta1400 angerc1400 engrievec1400 vex1418 molesta1425 entrouble?1435 destroublea1450 poina1450 rubc1450 to wring (a person) on the mailsc1450 disprofit1483 agrea1492 trouble1515 grig1553 mis-set?1553 nip?1553 grate1555 gripe1559 spitec1563 fike?1572 gall1573 corsie1574 corrosive1581 touch1581 disaccommodate1586 macerate1588 perplex1590 thorn1592 exulcerate1593 plague1595 incommode1598 affret1600 brier1601 to gall or tread on (one's) kibes1603 discommodate1606 incommodate1611 to grate on or upon1631 disincommodate1635 shog1636 ulcerate1647 incommodiate1650 to put (a person) out of his (her, etc.) way1653 discommodiate1654 discommode1657 ruffle1659 regrate1661 disoblige1668 torment1718 pesta1729 chagrin1734 pingle1740 bothera1745 potter1747 wherrit1762 to tweak the nose of1784 to play up1803 tout1808 rasp1810 outrage1818 worrit1818 werrit1825 buggerlug1850 taigle1865 get1867 to give a person the pip1881 to get across ——1888 nark1888 eat1893 to twist the tail1895 dudgeon1906 to tweak the tail of1909 sore1929 to put up1930 wouldn't it rip you!1941 sheg1943 to dick around1944 cheese1946 to pee off1946 to honk off1970 to fuck off1973 to tweak (a person's or thing's) tail1977 to tweak (a person's or thing's) nose1983 to wind up1984 to dick about1996 to-teen- 1784 P. Skelton Appeal Common Sense VI. 237 Common Sense might be provoked to try the Force of those Arguments by smartly tweaking the nose of that Philosopher. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. v. viii. 633 To tweak the nose of his sovereign royalty, and ignominiously force him into another way: that is an enterprise no man or devil..need attempt. 1909 A. Dudeney Rachel Lorian 308 Jeremy..was tweaking the tail of Fate. 1977 Tucson (Arizona) Daily Citizen 14 May 13 a/1 The man who saw him walking thus attired down a Laramie street..couldn't resist tweaking his tail. 1983 P. Dallas Ital. Wines (new ed.) ii. 30 Cynics..tweak Italy's nose, saying that far too many of the US imports are made up of Lambrusco. 2015 TVEyes (Nexis) (transcript of TV programme) 7 Oct. Is this an exercise in good faith or are they just tweaking the tail of the West here? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). < n.¹1616n.²1617v.1601
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