| 单词 | twigging |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈtwigging ˈtwigging n.1 ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > [noun] > blow struck with an object or instrument > with a twig twigging1916 1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist iv. 174 To flee from noise which caused him painful nervous irritation such as the sharpening of knives..and the twigging of the carpet. ˈtwigging ˈtwigging n.2 and adj.1 ΚΠ 1573 T. Twyne tr. Virgil in T. Phaer & T. Twyne tr. Virgil Whole .xii. Bks. Æneidos xi. I i iv b Lyke a fawcon that..at a twygginge doue vnto the cloudes swyft winge doth make. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 34v The lamb of such twynners, for breeders go take. For twinlings be twiggers, encrease for to bring: though som for their twigging, peccantem may sing. ˈtwigging ˈtwigging adj.2 ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > [adjective] > relating to or used in pulling > pulling suddenly or sharply yanking1823 twigging1864 1864 Reader 23 Jan. 105 The genus stringed-instrument consists of three species, which may be defined, to use the vernacular, as the twigging, the hammering, and the scraping. < as lemmas |
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