twitchern.

Brit.

/ˈtwɪtʃə/, U.S.

/ˈtwɪtʃər/

Forms: see twitch v.¹ and -er suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: twitch v.¹, -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < twitch v.¹ + -er suffix¹.Compare Old English twiccere , twickere person who cuts food into pieces, carver or cook ( < twick v. + -er suffix¹). In sense 5 probably with reference to the nervous excitement of a birdwatcher. For an influential claim of coinage in the 1950s see R. E. Emmett in British Birds (1983) 1 Aug. 353–4.

1. A person who pulls, plucks, or snatches something; one who causes something to twitch or jerk. Also as the second element in compounds.See also curtain-twitcher n. at curtain n.¹ Additions.

ΚΠ

1531 G. Joye tr. Prophete Isaye l. sig. M.vii^v In the morninge he twitched me by y^e eare & wakened me... I offere my backe to the smyters & my chekes to the twitchers [L. vellentibus].

1725 New Canting Dict. Cloak-Twitchers, villains who formerly, when Cloaks were much worn, us'd to lurk, in by and dark Places, to snatch them off the Wearer's Shoulders.

1899 Spectator 11 Nov. 684/2 We do not hold with twitching the driver's elbow, even if the twitcher has in fact hit upon a good theory.

1914 Theatre June 308/2 There is another pleasure derivable from seeing a play a second time... For the nonce we are the superiors of this twitcher of puppets [sc. the dramatist].

2005 B. Cohen & L. Wysocky Front of Class iii. 34 There were the eye blinkers and the nose twitchers, the foot stompers and the neck jerkers.

†2. An instrument for pinching or plucking something.

a. In plural. Tweezers or small pincers used to pluck out hairs. Also in pair of twitchers. Also occasionally in singular in the same sense. Obsolete.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > clutching or gripping equipment > [noun] > tongs or pincers > small

pincette?1533

twitcher?a1549

tweezers1654

pair of tuckers1658

tweezer1904

?a1549 Inventory Henry VIII (1998) I. 95/2 Item a paire of twicchers of silver.

1677 J. Phillips tr. J.-B. Tavernier New Relation Seraglio vii. 44 in tr. J.-B. Tavernier Six Voy. (1678) With a small kind of Pincers and twitchers, such as those, wherewith we take off the hair of the mustachoes.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 427/1 A Twitcher, or Twitchers; by them Hair superfluously growing in any part is pulled up by the Roots.

b. A tool used to clinch hog rings (hog ring n. at hog n.¹ Compounds 2a). Also in plural in the same sense. Obsolete.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > clutching or gripping equipment > [noun] > tongs or pincers

tongsc725

tongsc890

pinsons1356

turkis1390

pincersa1400

twitches?a1425

pinching iron1519

pincette?1533

spinsers1539

pincher1573

twitcher1573

tenailles1597

quitch1600

tenalia1603

forceps1634

vellicle1676

snapdragon1833

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of pigs > [noun] > nose-ring > instrument to fasten ring

twitcher1573

1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 15^v Hog yokes, & a twicher, & rings for a hog.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 244/1 Yoke for Swine, Twitchers or Rings.

1710 D. Hilman Tusser Redivivus Sept. 10 Twitchers are a sort of great Plyers to clinch the Hog-Ring withal.

c. In plural. A utensil used for trimming or decorating pastry. Obsolete.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > baker's equipment > pastry cutter

jagging-iron1598

runner1688

twitcher1688

paste cutter1845

cookie cutter1864

jagger1864

pastry cutter1869

cookie press1919

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) xxii. 274/2 Instruments belonging to the Cook. The first is termed a Runner with Twichers. Some Cooks call these Iging [perhaps = edging] Irons.

d. A device for restraining a horse during shoeing, veterinary procedures, etc.; = twitch n.¹ 1b. Obsolete.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > noose for muzzle

twitcher1688

twitch1783

twister1940

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 302/2 Horse Twichers, or Bracks..to put on Horses Noses, when they will not stand quietly to be Shooed [etc.].

1880 Preston Guardian 4 Sept. 6/5 The pony had a twitcher on its nose, and he held it there until blood dropped from its mouth.

†3. A heavy blow; a sharp or sudden pain. Obsolete (in later use English regional).

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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [noun] > a severe blow

rumble1489

revel1603

rattle1632

rebuke1692

twitcher1771

rattler1812

dingbat1843

wiper1846

a sleeve across the windpipe1952

the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [noun] > sudden pain

stitchc1000

showera1300

shutea1300

gridea1400

gripa1400

shota1400

stounda1400

lancing1470

pang1482

twitch?1510

shooting1528

storm1540

stitching1561

stub1587

twinge1608

gird1614

twang1721

tang1724

shoot1756

darting1758

writhe1789

catch1830

lightning pain1860

twitcher1877

rash1900

1771 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1883) V. 13 Be advised by me and I'll give them a twitcher.

1806 H. Macneill Poet. Wks. (new ed.) I. 128 Prepared for blows, I'll make these foes Ere long, cry out... Ah! morbleu—there's a twitcher!

1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Twitcher, a severe blow.

1877 Sunday Mag. 182 ‘The rheumatis’ had, in his own phrase, ‘caught him on the hop and given him a twitcher’.

4. A person who makes short, sudden, convulsive or spasmodic movements; a twitchy or fidgety person. rare before 20th cent.

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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > sudden movement > [noun] > spasmodic movement or twitching > one who

twitcher1793

1793 M. Wollstonecraft Let. 30 Dec. in Coll. Lett. (2003) viii. 19 Where shall I find a word to express the relationship which subsists between us?—Shall I ask the little twitcher?

1885 Rochester (Indiana) Republican 22 Jan. One of the sweetest belles, who unfortunately had an attack of the ‘hippo twitch’ walked down one of the streets showing her skill as a ‘twitcher’.

1952 Decatur (Alabama) Daily 8 Sept. 7/4 Are you a twitcher, a shifter, doodler, pumper, or back slapper? Well, calm down, mister!

1986 B. Michaels Shattered Silk v. 85 Fred's a good auctioneer; he knows a serious bidder from a nervous twitcher.

2005 J. Weiner Goodnight Nobody xv. 138 He didn't seem nervous, though. Maybe he was just one of those natural twitchers—the kind of guy who'd squirm in his seat through the credits before a movie.

5. colloquial (originally British). A birdwatcher whose main aim is to make sightings of rare birds; esp. one who travels great distances to do so, or who ticks off observations on a list; an enthusiastic or obsessive birdwatcher.

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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > one who sees > [noun] > bird-watcher

birdwatcher1803

birder1900

bird spotter1931

birdo1950

birdman1955

twitcher1974

1974 Guardian 19 Aug. 1/3 An exhausted North American spotted sandpiper..has become the latest target for the ornithological ‘tick-hunters’ or ‘twitchers’ of Britain.

1982 Times 15 June 10/4 Twitchers are only interested in spotting rarities to claim they have seen them. Ornithologists are serious students, who despise and distrust twitchers.

1993 ‘J. Gash’ Paid & Loving Eyes (1994) xxii. 247 Which was how I finished up sitting in a twitcher's hide watching the mansion house.

2006 Independent on Sunday 19 Feb. (Review Suppl.) 31/2 If there was a prize for hiding from biologists, twitchers, collectors and tourists, this diminutive bird would surely win.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	twitcher
释义	twitchern. Brit. /ˈtwɪtʃə/, U.S. /ˈtwɪtʃər/ Forms: see twitch v.¹ and -er suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: twitch v.¹, -er suffix¹. Etymology: < twitch v.¹ + -er suffix¹.Compare Old English twiccere , twickere person who cuts food into pieces, carver or cook ( < twick v. + -er suffix¹). In sense 5 probably with reference to the nervous excitement of a birdwatcher. For an influential claim of coinage in the 1950s see R. E. Emmett in British Birds (1983) 1 Aug. 353–4. 1. A person who pulls, plucks, or snatches something; one who causes something to twitch or jerk. Also as the second element in compounds.See also curtain-twitcher n. at curtain n.¹ Additions. ΚΠ 1531 G. Joye tr. Prophete Isaye l. sig. M.vii^v In the morninge he twitched me by y^e eare & wakened me... I offere my backe to the smyters & my chekes to the twitchers [L. vellentibus]. 1725 New Canting Dict. Cloak-Twitchers, villains who formerly, when Cloaks were much worn, us'd to lurk, in by and dark Places, to snatch them off the Wearer's Shoulders. 1899 Spectator 11 Nov. 684/2 We do not hold with twitching the driver's elbow, even if the twitcher has in fact hit upon a good theory. 1914 Theatre June 308/2 There is another pleasure derivable from seeing a play a second time... For the nonce we are the superiors of this twitcher of puppets [sc. the dramatist]. 2005 B. Cohen & L. Wysocky Front of Class iii. 34 There were the eye blinkers and the nose twitchers, the foot stompers and the neck jerkers. †2. An instrument for pinching or plucking something. a. In plural. Tweezers or small pincers used to pluck out hairs. Also in pair of twitchers. Also occasionally in singular in the same sense. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > clutching or gripping equipment > [noun] > tongs or pincers > small pincette?1533 twitcher?a1549 tweezers1654 pair of tuckers1658 tweezer1904 ?a1549 Inventory Henry VIII (1998) I. 95/2 Item a paire of twicchers of silver. 1677 J. Phillips tr. J.-B. Tavernier New Relation Seraglio vii. 44 in tr. J.-B. Tavernier Six Voy. (1678) With a small kind of Pincers and twitchers, such as those, wherewith we take off the hair of the mustachoes. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 427/1 A Twitcher, or Twitchers; by them Hair superfluously growing in any part is pulled up by the Roots. b. A tool used to clinch hog rings (hog ring n. at hog n.¹ Compounds 2a). Also in plural in the same sense. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > clutching or gripping equipment > [noun] > tongs or pincers tongsc725 tongsc890 pinsons1356 turkis1390 pincersa1400 twitches?a1425 pinching iron1519 pincette?1533 spinsers1539 pincher1573 twitcher1573 tenailles1597 quitch1600 tenalia1603 forceps1634 vellicle1676 snapdragon1833 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of pigs > [noun] > nose-ring > instrument to fasten ring twitcher1573 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 15^v Hog yokes, & a twicher, & rings for a hog. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 244/1 Yoke for Swine, Twitchers or Rings. 1710 D. Hilman Tusser Redivivus Sept. 10 Twitchers are a sort of great Plyers to clinch the Hog-Ring withal. c. In plural. A utensil used for trimming or decorating pastry. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > baker's equipment > pastry cutter jagging-iron1598 runner1688 twitcher1688 paste cutter1845 cookie cutter1864 jagger1864 pastry cutter1869 cookie press1919 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) xxii. 274/2 Instruments belonging to the Cook. The first is termed a Runner with Twichers. Some Cooks call these Iging [perhaps = edging] Irons. d. A device for restraining a horse during shoeing, veterinary procedures, etc.; = twitch n.¹ 1b. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > noose for muzzle twitcher1688 twitch1783 twister1940 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 302/2 Horse Twichers, or Bracks..to put on Horses Noses, when they will not stand quietly to be Shooed [etc.]. 1880 Preston Guardian 4 Sept. 6/5 The pony had a twitcher on its nose, and he held it there until blood dropped from its mouth. †3. A heavy blow; a sharp or sudden pain. Obsolete (in later use English regional). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [noun] > a severe blow rumble1489 revel1603 rattle1632 rebuke1692 twitcher1771 rattler1812 dingbat1843 wiper1846 a sleeve across the windpipe1952 the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [noun] > sudden pain stitchc1000 showera1300 shutea1300 gridea1400 gripa1400 shota1400 stounda1400 lancing1470 pang1482 twitch?1510 shooting1528 storm1540 stitching1561 stub1587 twinge1608 gird1614 twang1721 tang1724 shoot1756 darting1758 writhe1789 catch1830 lightning pain1860 twitcher1877 rash1900 1771 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1883) V. 13 Be advised by me and I'll give them a twitcher. 1806 H. Macneill Poet. Wks. (new ed.) I. 128 Prepared for blows, I'll make these foes Ere long, cry out... Ah! morbleu—there's a twitcher! 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Twitcher, a severe blow. 1877 Sunday Mag. 182 ‘The rheumatis’ had, in his own phrase, ‘caught him on the hop and given him a twitcher’. 4. A person who makes short, sudden, convulsive or spasmodic movements; a twitchy or fidgety person. rare before 20th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > sudden movement > [noun] > spasmodic movement or twitching > one who twitcher1793 1793 M. Wollstonecraft Let. 30 Dec. in Coll. Lett. (2003) viii. 19 Where shall I find a word to express the relationship which subsists between us?—Shall I ask the little twitcher? 1885 Rochester (Indiana) Republican 22 Jan. One of the sweetest belles, who unfortunately had an attack of the ‘hippo twitch’ walked down one of the streets showing her skill as a ‘twitcher’. 1952 Decatur (Alabama) Daily 8 Sept. 7/4 Are you a twitcher, a shifter, doodler, pumper, or back slapper? Well, calm down, mister! 1986 B. Michaels Shattered Silk v. 85 Fred's a good auctioneer; he knows a serious bidder from a nervous twitcher. 2005 J. Weiner Goodnight Nobody xv. 138 He didn't seem nervous, though. Maybe he was just one of those natural twitchers—the kind of guy who'd squirm in his seat through the credits before a movie. 5. colloquial (originally British). A birdwatcher whose main aim is to make sightings of rare birds; esp. one who travels great distances to do so, or who ticks off observations on a list; an enthusiastic or obsessive birdwatcher. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > one who sees > [noun] > bird-watcher birdwatcher1803 birder1900 bird spotter1931 birdo1950 birdman1955 twitcher1974 1974 Guardian 19 Aug. 1/3 An exhausted North American spotted sandpiper..has become the latest target for the ornithological ‘tick-hunters’ or ‘twitchers’ of Britain. 1982 Times 15 June 10/4 Twitchers are only interested in spotting rarities to claim they have seen them. Ornithologists are serious students, who despise and distrust twitchers. 1993 ‘J. Gash’ Paid & Loving Eyes (1994) xxii. 247 Which was how I finished up sitting in a twitcher's hide watching the mansion house. 2006 Independent on Sunday 19 Feb. (Review Suppl.) 31/2 If there was a prize for hiding from biologists, twitchers, collectors and tourists, this diminutive bird would surely win. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1531
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