twinge

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Write it down there; there's pen and ink; and leave me, for the twinge is coming, and I shall roar Will you permit me, sir, to leave my own servant with you to take care of you?

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  1. noun A sharp, sudden physical pain. See Synonyms at pain.
  2. noun A mental or emotional pain: a twinge of guilt.
  3. transitive verb To cause to feel a sharp pain.
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  • Looking at the battered man, Eli felt a strange twinge -- a hazy sense that he knew the dying stranger. —  F ;SF; - vol 102 issue 01 - January 2002
  • The three whip scars on my back gave one remembrance of a twinge, then subsided as I took a deep breath. —  Lilith Saintcrow - [Dante Valentine 1] - Working for the Devil
  • Halle was relieved to find that her twinge was already gone. —  Lunatics
  • A faint twinge, as of an old wound, crossed Delaunay's face. —  Carey, Jaqueline - Kushiel's Dart orig
  • The black wall of rock shoved up about them, and probably induced that feeling of inferiority, that speck-in-creation twinge which is one of the big kicks of the Grand Canyon to most visitors. —  045 - Resurrection Day
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pang ·  stab ·  spasm ·  undercurrent ·  flicker ·  tremor ·  tinge ·  jolt ·  qualm ·  surge ·  tingle ·  ache

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twinge:   twinges
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. From Middle English twengen, to pinch, from Old English twengan.

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  1. (a) from Middle English twingen, apparently altered from thwingen, from Anglo-Saxon *thwingan (preterit *thwang) = Old Saxon thwingan = OFries. dwinga, twinga = Middle Dutch dwinghen, Dutch dwingen = Old High German dwingan, thwingan, press, constrain, oppress, conquer, Middle High German twingen, dwingen, German zwingen = Icelandic thvinga, weigh down, oppress, compel, = Danish tvinge = Swedish tvinga, constrain. (b) from Middle English twengen = Middle Dutch dwenghen = Old High German zwengan, dwengan, Middle High German twengen, German zwangen, press, constrain, a secondary verb (associated with the noun, Old High German zwang, dwang, gidwang, Middle High German zwanc, twanc, German zwang, constraint, compulsion), from the orig. strong verb above. Cf. thong, from the same ult. source.
  2. from twinge, v.
 

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