Twig Definition

twĭg

twigged, twigging, twigs

noun

twigs

A young shoot representing the current season's growth of a woody plant.

American Heritage

A small, slender branch or shoot of a tree or shrub.

Webster's New World

The current style; the fashion.

American Heritage

A small thin branch of a tree or bush.

They used twigs and leaves as a base to start the fire.

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verb

twigged, twigging, twigs

To observe.

Webster's New World

To understand.

Webster's New World

To be or become aware of the situation; understand.

American Heritage

To beat with twigs.

Wiktionary

(colloquial, regional) To realise something; to catch on.

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Other Word Forms of Twig

Singular:

twig

Plural:

Old English twigge, from Proto-Germanic *twÄ«gÄ… (compare West Frisian twiich, Dutch twijg, German Zweig), from Proto-Indo-European *dwigha (compare Old Church Slavonic [script?] (dvigÅ, “branch"), Albanian degÃ« 'id.'), from *dwó 'two'. More at two.

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Perhaps from Irish Gaelic tuig- stem of tuigim I understand from Old Irish tuicim

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Middle English from Old English twigge dwo- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Irish and Scottish Gaelic tuig (“to understand").

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Origin unknown

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Compare tweak.

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