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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024twig1 /twɪg/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Plant Biologya small, thin shoot of a wooden branch or stem.
twig•gy, adj., -gi•er, -gi•est. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024twig1 (twig),USA pronunciation n. - Botanya slender shoot of a tree or other plant.
- Botanya small offshoot from a branch or stem.
- Botanya small, dry, woody piece fallen from a branch:a fire of twigs.
- Anatomyone of the minute branches of a blood vessel or nerve.
- bef. 950; Middle English; Old English twig, twigge, origin, originally (something) divided in two; akin to Old High German zwīg (German Zweig), Dutch twijg; compare Sanskrit dvikás double
v.t. - British Termsto look at;
observe:Now, twig the man climbing there, will you? - British Termsto see;
perceive:Do you twig the difference in colors? - British Termsto understand.
v.i. - British Termsto understand.
- Irish tuigim I understand, with English w reflecting the offglide before i of the velarized Irish t typical of southern Ireland; compare dig2
- 1755–65
- British Termsstyle;
fashion.
- origin, originally uncertain 1805–15
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