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▪ I. twinge, n.|twɪndʒ|
Forms: 6 twynge, twynche, 7 twindge, (twing), 7– twinge.
[f. twinge v.1]
†1. An act of tweaking or pinching; a tweak or pinch. Also fig. Obs.
1548Udall Erasm. Par. Luke Prol. 15 Nipped my hert also with a litell twynge. c1550Pryde & Abuse Women 200 in Hazl. E.P.P. IV. 243 Rubbe a galde horse on thee backe, And he wyll kicke and wynse; And so wyll wanton wylyons When they have anye snaper or twynche. 1611Cotgr., Strette, a pinch, nip, wrinche, twindge. Ibid., Tire, a..ierke, twang, twing. a1625Fletcher Nice Valour iii. ii, For the twindge by th' nose, 'Tis certainly unsightly. 1692R. L'Estrange Fables ccxciii. I. 255, I wonder..how you can Fawn thus upon a Master that gives you so many Blows, and Twinges by the Ears. [1869Browning Ring & Bk. ix. 146 Gently thou joggest by a twinge the wit.]
2. A sharp pinching or wringing pain; often, a momentary local pain; esp. applied to that of gout and rheumatism.
1608Middleton Mad World ii. vii, You feel as it were a twinge? 1639in Verney Mem. (1907) I. 220 Crewell twinges [of gout]. 1787Wolcott (P. Pindar) Instr. Laureat Wks. 1812 I. 497 They've felt a pain in all their Toes And often at the twinges started. 1824Lady Granville Lett. 21 Mar. (1894) I. 267 Your..letter..soothed and comforted me during my sharpest twinges [of toothache]. 1827Edin. Weekly Jrnl. 28 Feb., I can agree with Lord Ogleby as to his rheumatism, and say, ‘There's a twinge’. 1831Brewster Nat. Magic iii. (1833) 48 The account of any person having suffered severe pain..produces acute twinges of pain in the corresponding parts of her person. a1839Praed Poems (1864) II. 77 When the twinge comes shooting through you. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola vii, The gout..gave him such severe twinges. 1880L. Stephen Pope iv. 88 Philosophers capable of rheumatic twinges.
b. transf. A ‘nip’ of cold, etc.
1888E. D. Gerard Land beyond Forest lv. 360 Alternate twinges of cold and heat.
3. fig. A sharp mental pain; a pang of shame, remorse, sorrow, or the like; a prick of conscience; in quot. a 1745, a stimulating prick.
1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. i. 19 Her feigned pangs cease[d], and those truer ones of loue beganne to manifest themselues, giuing other kinde of twinges. 1681Dryden Spanish Fryar iv. i, The Wickedness of this old Villain..gives me a twinge for my own Sin. a1745Swift Serm. viii. Wks. 1841 II. 157/2 The poorer sort..have no twinges of ambition. 1780Cowper Table Talk 425 Conscience will have twinges now and then. 1800Weems Washington xv. (1877) 223 This could not save poor Jack from the twinges of envy. 1834L. Ritchie Wand. by Seine 168 The sudden clang of a church-bell arrests us, like a twinge of remorse. 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. viii. (1889) 69 It cost the Vicar some twinges of conscience to persuade him. 1874L. Stephen Hours in Library (1892) II. iii. 91 Burke's politics gave him some severe twinges.
4. A twist, a turn. lit. and fig. rare.
1860Holland Miss Gilbert ii. 38 ‘Easy!’ exclaimed Arthur, a half-contemptuous twinge in his lip. 1875J. Morison in Expositor I. 124 Grotius gave the expression a most unnatural twinge.
5. dial. An earwig.
1790Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2), Twinge, or Twitch, an earwig. North. 1828Craven Gloss. 1863Mrs. Toogood Yorks. Dial. (MS.).
▪ II. twinge, v.1|twɪndʒ|
Forms: 1 twengan (twæng-), 3 twenge, 3–4 tuenge, 5 twynch, 7 twindge, 7– twinge.
[OE. twengan, of obscure etymology; there is no evidence of connexion with Continental forms from the stem þwing- denoting ‘to constrain, oppress, etc.’]
1. trans. To pinch, wring, tweak, twitch. Also intr. (quot. 1858). Obs. exc. dial.
c1000in Techmer's Internat. Zeitschr. II. 124/23 Twenge hine siððan mid þara swiþran hande. Ibid. 125/19 Wænd þinne scytefinger adune and twængc hine mid þinum twam fingrum. a1250Owl & Night. 156 Þu hauest clyures swiþe stronge Þu twengest þar mid so doþ a tonge. Ibid. 1114 An holeh stoc hwar þu þe mist hude Þat me ne twenge þine hude. c1305St. Dunstan 81 in E.E.P. (1862) 36 Þe deuel he hente bi þe nose: He tuengde and schok hire bi þe nose. 1440J. Shirley Dethe K. James (1818) 26 The tourmentours..withe hookid ynstrumentes of yryne,..pynchid and twynchid his theghis, his legges,..and over all his body. 1607Beaumont Woman Hater ii. i, I doe use to tear their hair, to kick them, and twindge their noses, if they be not carefull in avoiding me. 1611Beaum. & Fl. King & no K. v. i, Thus twinge your nose, thus kick, thus tread upon you. 1628A. Leighton Zion's Plea x. (1842) 195 There are too many flesh-flies, who..twinge and bite such as do deal faithfully with Princes. 1630B. Jonson New Inn i. i, To..twinge three or four buttons From off my lady's gown. 1678Butler Hud. iii. i. 1155 Twindging him by th' Ears or Nose. 1858Kingsley Winter-Gard. in Misc. I. 146 That flock of long-tailed tit-mice, which were twinging and pecking about the fir-cones.
2. † To cause to smart or tingle; to irritate (obs.); to affect (the body or mind) with a twinge or sharp pain; to prick (the conscience).
1647[see twinging below]. 1666Bunyan Grace Ab. §184 Nothing did twinge my Conscience like this. 1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 114 A willingness to be rid of those gallers that twinge the brain of the stiff maintainer of this. 1686F. Spence tr. Varillas' Ho. Medicis 431 Leo..twing'd him sometimes with severe corrections. 1727Gay Fables i. xxxi. 7 As, twing'd with pain, he pensive sits, And raves, and prays, and swears by fits. 1780S. J. Pratt Emma Corbett (ed. 4) II. 71 His old aches would twinge him a little. 1785E. Perronet Occas. Verses, Acrostic 203 His mission..Like that dumb brute's, that twing'd a prophet's ear. 1801M. Edgeworth Out of Debt i, If any of his father's old notions of economy by chance twinged his conscience. 1815Scott Paul's Lett. (1839) 173 The Bishop of Ghent..has found his conscience alarmingly twinged. 1893D. C. Murray Time's Revenges II. xxviii. 208 The old wound twinged him.
b. intr. To experience a twinge or smart.
1640H. Glapthorne Wit in Constable iv, To have your nose Twinge if ours' chance to itch. 1757E. Perronet Mitre iv. xiii, Shudder ye sires—twinge ev'ry ear. 1850Sir A. Agnew in McCrie Mem. viii. (1852) 199 Reflection arising and conscience twinging. 1868[see twinging below].
Hence twinging |ˈtwɪndʒɪŋ| vbl. n.1 and ppl. a.; also twinger |ˈtwɪndʒə(r)|, one who or that which twinges.
1608Day Law Trickes ii. C ij, One Tristella..a twindger, a meere Horsleach, one that will suck out the braines of his treasurie. 1621B. Jonson Gipsies Metam. Wks. (Rtldg.) 625/2 There's an old twinger Can shew ye the ginger. 1647Sprigge Anglia Rediv. Address (1854) p. vii, Twinging convulsions. 1659Tatham London's Triumph 14 Ginger, That Nose tosting twinger. 1682Bunyan Greatness of Soul Wks. (ed. Offor) I. 120 Despair, which is the most twinging stripe of hell. 1816J. Wilson City of Plague ii. iii. 219 Felt you no little twinging of remorse? 1868Geo. Eliot Sp. Gipsy i. (1908) 27, I've a twinging knee. 1906Daily Chron. 29 Mar. 6/4 How would he wear..with a twingeing tooth and an influenza cold?
▪ III. † twinge, v.2 Obs. rare.
[Perh. intended as a fig. use of prec., but prob. originating in some misunderstanding of earlier glosses. The strong pa. pple. twungen is app. less original than the weak form twinged.]
trans. To oppress, afflict, persecute. Hence twinging vbl. n.2
a1300E.E. Psalter xvi. 10 [xvii. 9] Hile me..Fra face ofe wicked þat twinged me swa. Ibid. xvii. 21 [xviii. 18] Þai forcome me in daie of twinginge. Ibid. xxxvii[i]. 8, I am twinged, and meked for vnquerte [MS. H. I am meked and twungen smert]. Ibid. xli. 13 [xlii. 9] Wharfore murned in I go, Whil þat twinges me þe fo? |