twinge

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A sharp, sudden physical pain. See Synonyms at pain.
2. n. A mental or emotional pain: a twinge of guilt.
3. v. To cause to feel a sharp pain.
4. v. Obsolete To tweak; pinch.
5. v. To feel a twinge or twinges.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To press; constrain; oppress; affiict.
2. To pull with a sharp, pinching jerk; tweak; twitch.
3. To torment with sharp, darting pains; sting: said of physical or mental pain.
4. To have a sharp, jerking pain, like a twitch; suffer a keen, shooting pain.
5. n. A nipping or pinching; a twitch; a tweak.
6. n. A sharp, darting pain of momentary continuance; a pang, physical or mental.
7. n. Synonyms See pain and agony.

Wiktionary

1. n. A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.
2. n. A sudden sharp pain; a darting local pain of momentary continuance; as, a twinge in the arm or side.
3. v. To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.
4. v. To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.
5. v. To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain; as, the side twinges.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.
2. v. To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.
3. v. To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain.
4. n. A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.
5. n. A sudden sharp pain; a darting local pain of momentary continuance.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. cause a stinging pain
2. v. feel a sudden sharp, local pain
3. v. squeeze tightly between the fingers
4. n. a sharp stab of pain
5. n. a sudden sharp feeling