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[ twig-ee ] / ˈtwɪg i / SEE SYNONYMS FOR twiggy ON THESAURUS.COM
adjective, twig·gi·er, twig·gi·est.of, relating to, or resembling twigs. full of twigs. Origin of twiggyFirst recorded in 1555–65; twig1 + -y1 Words nearby twiggytwiddle one's thumbs, twig, twig blight, twig borer, twig girdler, twiggy, twilight, Twilight of the Gods, twilight sleep, twilight state, twilight zone Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for twiggyBefittingly, Entertainment Weekly has styled Dunham as 60s supermodel Twiggy for their 2012 Entertainers of the Year photo shoot. Kate Upton Lands Second Vogue Cover; Lena Dunham Does Twiggy|The Fashion Beast Team|December 6, 2012|DAILY BEAST Tree moderately vigorous, round-headed, twiggy; shoots reddish; foliage rather dark. American Pomology|J. A. Warder There are many woody little, much branched, twiggy shrublets, which bristle all over with thorns and spines. The Romance of Plant Life|G. F. Scott Elliot No, sir; only that some of the shoots are big and strong, and some are little and twiggy. Brownsmith's Boy|George Manville Fenn
The leaves are neat, thickly-arranged, and hoary, while the whole plant is twiggy and of strict though by no means formal growth. Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs|A. D. Webster The great branches stand off nearly at right angles to the trunk, and are bushy and twiggy at the ends. Cornell Nature-Study Leaflets|Various
British Dictionary definitions for twiggy
adjective -gier or -giestof or relating to a twig or twigs covered with twigs slender or fragile Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to twiggyattenuate, beanpole, cadaverous, emaciated, ethereal, fragile, gangling, gangly, gaunt, haggard, lank, lanky, lean, lightweight, peaked, pole, puny, rangy, rarefied, rawboned |