twingen.

/twɪndʒ/

Forms: 1500s twynge, twynche, 1600s twindge, ( twing), 1600s– twinge.

Etymology: < twinge v.¹

†1. An act of tweaking or pinching; a tweak or pinch. Also figurative. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > cause of mental anguish or torment > [noun]

roodOE

thornc1230

prickc1384

rack?a1425

travailerc1450

goading1548

twinge1548

goad1553

tormentor1553

cut1568

stingera1577

butcher1579

torture1612

bosom-devil1651

wound1844

knife-edge1876

nemesis1933

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke Prol. 15 Nipped my hert also with a litell twynge.

c1550 C. Bansley Treat. Pryde & Abuse of Women sig. A.iv Rubbe a galde horse on thee backe, and he wyll kycke and wynse And so wyll wanton wylyons, when they haue anye snaper or twynche.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Strette, a pinch, nip, wrinche, twindge.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tire, a..ierke, twang, twing.

a1627 J. Fletcher & T. Middleton Nice Valour iii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Uuu2^v/1 For the twinge by th' nose, 'Tis certainly unsightly.

1692 R. L'Estrange Fables 255 I wonder..how you can Fawn thus upon a Master that gives you so many Blows, and Twinges by the Ears.

1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. III. ix. 182 Gently thou joggest by a twinge the wit.]

a. A sharp pinching or wringing pain; often, a momentary local pain; esp. applied to that of gout and rheumatism.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [noun] > sudden pain

stitchc1000

showera1300

shutea1300

gridea1400

gripa1400

shota1400

stounda1400

lancing1470

pang1482

twitch?1510

shooting1528

storm1540

stitching1561

stub1587

twinge1608

gird1614

twang1721

tang1724

shoot1756

darting1758

writhe1789

catch1830

lightning pain1860

twitcher1877

rash1900

1608 T. Middleton Mad World, my Masters ii. sig. D You feele as it were a twinge.

1639 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) I. 220 Crewell twinges [of gout].

1787 J. Wolcot Instr. Celebr. Laureat in Wks. (1812) I. 497 They've felt a pain in all their Toes And often at the twinges started.

1824 Countess Granville Let. 21 Mar. (1894) I. 267 Your..letter..soothed and comforted me during my sharpest twinges [of toothache].

1827 Edinb. Weekly Jrnl. 28 Feb. I can agree with Lord Ogleby as to his rheumatism, and say, ‘There's a twinge’.

1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic iii. 47 The account of any person having suffered severe pain..produces acute twinges of pain in the corresponding parts of her person.

a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 77 When the twinge comes shooting through you.

1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. vii. 133 The gout..gave him such severe twinges.

1880 L. Stephen Alexander Pope iv. 88 Philosophers capable of rheumatic twinges.

b. transferred. A ‘nip’ of cold, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [noun] > sensation of cold > sudden

ice bolt1789

twinge1888

1888 E. Gerard Land beyond Forest lv. 360 Alternate twinges of cold and heat.

3. figurative. A sharp mental pain; a pang of shame, remorse, sorrow, or the like; a prick of conscience; in quot. a1745, a stimulating prick.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > [noun] > a pang

stitch?c1225

prong1440

twitch?1510

pang1534

pincha1566

aculeusa1612

twinge1622

twang1721

tang1724

twinging1816

brain-ache1836

society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > [noun] > pricking or murmuring of conscience

wormOE

prick of conscience?c1225

bitingc1440

compunction?a1475

grudge1483

pouncea1500

grutch1509

pincha1566

remurmuration of conscience1611

twinge1622

wringing1623

twinging1816

1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. 19 Her feigned pangs cease[d], and those truer ones of loue beganne to manifest themselues, giuing other kinde of twinges.

1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar iv. ii. 48 The Wickedness of this old Villain..gives me a twinge for my own Sin.

a1745 J. Swift Serm. viii, in Wks. (1841) II. 157/2 The poorer sort..have no twinges of ambition.

1780 W. Cowper Table Talk 425 Conscience will have twinges now and then.

1800 M. L. Weems Life G. Washington (ed. 2) 30 This could not save poor Jack from the twinges of envy.

1834 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Seine 168 The sudden clang of a church-bell arrests us, like a twinge of remorse.

1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. viii. 138 It cost the Vicar some twinges of conscience to persuade him.

1876 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 2nd Ser. vii. 324 Burke's politics gave him some severe twinges.

4. A twist, a turn. literal and figurative. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > misshapenness > [noun] > action or fact of putting or being out of shape > distortion

beshrewinga1425

distortion1581

wryness1591

contortion1611

distorture1613

distortedness1684

wringing1706

twisting1725

cross-winding1815

twistification1835

detortion1853

twinge1860

1860 J. G. Holland Miss Gilbert's Career ii. 38 ‘Easy!’ exclaimed Arthur, a half-contemptuous twinge in his lip.

1875 J. Morison in Expositor I. 124 Grotius gave the expression a most unnatural twinge.

5. dialect. An earwig.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Dermaptera > member of (earwig)

earwigeOE

beetle-wig1595

earworm1598

twitch-ballock1634

forken-robin1691

twitch-bell1722

twinge1790

twitch1790

1790 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2) Twinge, or Twitch, an earwig. North.

1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2)

1863 Mrs. Toogood Specim. Yorks. Dial. (MS.)

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twingev.¹

/twɪndʒ/

Forms: Old English twengan ( twæng-), Middle English twenge, Middle English tuenge, Middle English twynch, 1600s twindge, 1600s– twinge.

Etymology: Old English twengan, of obscure etymology; there is no evidence of connection with Continental forms from the stem þwing- denoting ‘to constrain, oppress, etc.’

1. transitive. To pinch, wring, tweak, twitch. Also intransitive (quot. 1858). Obsolete exc. dialect.

ΚΠ

c1000 in Techmer's Internat. Zeitschr. II. 124/23 Twenge hine siððan mid þara swiþran hande.

c1000 in Techmer's Internat. Zeitschr. II. 125/19 Wænd þinne scytefinger adune and twængc hine mid þinum twam fingrum.

a1250 Owl & Nightingale 156 Þu hauest clyures swiþe stronge Þu twengest þar mid so doþ a tonge.

a1250 Owl & Nightingale 1114 An holeh stoc hwar þu þe mist hude Þat me ne twenge þine hude.

c1305 St. Dunstan 81 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 36 Þe deuel he hente bi þe nose: He tuengde and schok hire bi þe nose.

1440 J. Shirley Cron. Dethe James Stewarde (1818) 26 The tourmentours..withe hookid ynstrumentes of yryne,..pynchid and twynchid his theghis, his legges,..and over all his body.

1607 F. Beaumont Woman Hater ii. i. sig. D2^v I do vse to teare their haire, to kick them, and twindge their noses, if they be not carefull in auoiding me.

1619 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher King & No King v. sig. K2 Thus twinge your nose, thus kicke you, and thus tread you.

1628 A. Leighton Appeal to Parl. (1842) x. 195 There are too many flesh-flies, who..twinge and bite such as do deal faithfully with Princes.

1631 B. Jonson New Inne i. iii. 80 To..Twinge three or foure buttons From off my Ladyes gowne.

1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. i. 67 Twinging him by th' Ears, or Nose.

1858 C. Kingsley My Winter-garden in Misc. (1860) I. 146 That flock of long-tailed tit-mice, which were twinging and pecking about the fir-cones.

a. †To cause to smart or tingle; to irritate (obsolete); to affect (the body or mind) with a twinge or sharp pain; to prick (the conscience).

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > affect with type of pain [verb (transitive)] > affect with sudden pain

stitchc1230

stoundc1500

twinge1647

the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > cause of mental anguish or torment > cause anguish to or torment [verb (transitive)] > afflict with pangs

pingeOE

prickOE

bite?c1200

to smite to a person's hearta1225

stingc1386

hita1400

tanga1400

prickle?a1513

pang1520

punch1548

stimulate1548

twinge1647

society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > repent (sin, wrongdoing, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > affect with remorse > prick, smite, etc., with remorse

prickOE

smitea1382

tanga1400

grudgec1460

to hit home1627

twinge1647

1647 [see twinging n.¹ and adj. at Derivatives].

1666 J. Bunyan Grace Abounding §184 Nothing did twinge my Conscience like this.

1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 114 A willingness to be rid of those gallers that twinge the brain of the stiff maintainer of this.

1686 F. Spence tr. A. Varillas Ἀνεκδοτα Ἑτερουιακα 431 Leo..twing'd him sometimes with severe corrections.

1727 J. Gay Fables I. xxxi. 105 As, twing'd with pain, he pensive sits, And raves, and prays, and swears by fits.

1780 S. J. Pratt Emma Corbett II. 73 His old achs would twinge him a little.

1785 E. Perronet Acrostic in Occas. Verses 203 His mission..Like that dumb brute's, that twing'd a prophet's ear.

1804 M. Edgeworth Out of Debt i, in Pop. Tales I. 321 If any of his father's old notions of economy by chance twinged his conscience.

1816 W. Scott Paul's Lett. to Kinsfolk 229 The Archbishop of Liege..has found his conscience alarmingly twinged.

1893 D. C. Murray Time's Revenges II. xxviii. 208 The old wound twinged him.

b. intransitive. To experience a twinge or smart.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > suffer or cause type of pain [verb (intransitive)] > shoot or stab > suffer sudden pain

twinge1640

stab1865

the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > suffer anguish or torment [verb (intransitive)]

anguisha1400

smoke1548

wring1565

to eat one's (own) heart1590

to bleed inwardlya1616

sting1849

twinge1850

to be hard (sometimes heavily, badly) hit1854

1640 H. Glapthorne Wit in Constable iv. sig. Fiii^v To have your noses Twingd if ours' chance to itch.

1756 E. Perronet Mitre iv. xiii. 220 Shudder ye sires—twinge ev'ry ear.

1850 Sir A. Agnew in McCrie Mem. (1852) viii. 199 Reflection arising and conscience twinging.

1868 [see twinging n.¹ and adj. at Derivatives].

Derivatives

twinging n.¹ and adj.

/ˈtwɪndʒɪŋ/

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [adjective] > sudden

angrya1500

pang-likea1586

twinging1647

stitching1699

shooting1752

lancing1758

lancinating1762

stabbing1764

catching1820

fulgurating1878

the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > cause of mental anguish or torment > [adjective] > causing a pang

stinginga1250

twinging1647

the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > [noun] > a pang

stitch?c1225

prong1440

twitch?1510

pang1534

pincha1566

aculeusa1612

twinge1622

twang1721

tang1724

twinging1816

brain-ache1836

society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > [noun] > pricking or murmuring of conscience

wormOE

prick of conscience?c1225

bitingc1440

compunction?a1475

grudge1483

pouncea1500

grutch1509

pincha1566

remurmuration of conscience1611

twinge1622

wringing1623

twinging1816

1647 J. Sprigge Anglia Rediviva Addr. sig. *B3 You, that..have felt the twinging convulsions.

1682 J. Bunyan Greatness of Soul in Wks. (1853) I. 120 Despair, which is the most twinging stripe of hell.

1816 J. Wilson City of Plague ii. iii. 219 Felt you no little twinging of remorse?

1868 ‘G. Eliot’ Spanish Gypsy i. 25 I've a twinging knee.

1906 Daily Chron. 29 Mar. 6/4 How would he wear..with a twingeing tooth and an influenza cold?

twinger n.

/ˈtwɪndʒə(r)/ one who or that which twinges.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [noun] > sudden pain > cause of

twinger1608

1608 J. Day Law-trickes sig. C2 One Tristella..a twindger, a meere Horsleach, one that will suck out the braines of his treasurie.

a1637 B. Jonson Masque of Gypsies 80* in tr. Horace Art of Poetry (1640) There's an old twinger Can shew you the Ginger.

1659 J. Tatham London's Tryumph 14 Ginger, That Nose tosting twinger.

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† twingev.²

Etymology: Perhaps intended as a figurative use of twinge v.¹, but probably originating in some misunderstanding of earlier glosses. The strong past participle twungen is apparently less original than the weak form twinged.

Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To oppress, afflict, persecute.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > adversity > suffer (adversity or affliction) [verb (transitive)] > afflict > oppress or afflict

heavyc897

narroweOE

overlayOE

overseamOE

twingea1300

to weigh downa1340

grieve1340

besit1377

oppressc1384

foila1400

thringa1400

empressc1400

enpressc1400

aska1425

press?a1425

peisea1450

straita1464

constraina1500

overhale1531

to grate on or upon1532

wrack1562

surcharge1592

to lie heavy uponc1595

to weigh back, on one side, to the earth1595

to sit on ——1607

to sit upon ——1607

gall1614

bear1645

weight1647

obsess1648

aggrieve1670

swinge1681

lean1736

gravitate1754

weigh1794

a1300 E.E. Psalter xvi. 10 [xvii. 9] Hile me..Fra face ofe wicked þat twinged me swa.

a1300 E.E. Psalter xxxvii[i]. 8 I am twinged, and meked for vnquerte [MS. H. I am meked and twungen smert].

a1300 E.E. Psalter xli. 13 [xlii. 9] Wharfore murned in I go, Whil þat twinges me þe fo?

Derivatives

twinging n.²

ΚΠ

a1300 E.E. Psalter xvii. 21 [xviii. 18] Þai forcome me in daie of twinginge.

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n.1548

v.¹c1000

v.²a1300

单词	twinge
释义	twingen. /twɪndʒ/ Forms: 1500s twynge, twynche, 1600s twindge, ( twing), 1600s– twinge. Etymology: < twinge v.¹ †1. An act of tweaking or pinching; a tweak or pinch. Also figurative. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > cause of mental anguish or torment > [noun] roodOE thornc1230 prickc1384 rack?a1425 travailerc1450 goading1548 twinge1548 goad1553 tormentor1553 cut1568 stingera1577 butcher1579 torture1612 bosom-devil1651 wound1844 knife-edge1876 nemesis1933 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke Prol. 15 Nipped my hert also with a litell twynge. c1550 C. Bansley Treat. Pryde & Abuse of Women sig. A.iv Rubbe a galde horse on thee backe, and he wyll kycke and wynse And so wyll wanton wylyons, when they haue anye snaper or twynche. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Strette, a pinch, nip, wrinche, twindge. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tire, a..ierke, twang, twing. a1627 J. Fletcher & T. Middleton Nice Valour iii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Uuu2^v/1 For the twinge by th' nose, 'Tis certainly unsightly. 1692 R. L'Estrange Fables 255 I wonder..how you can Fawn thus upon a Master that gives you so many Blows, and Twinges by the Ears. 1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. III. ix. 182 Gently thou joggest by a twinge the wit.] 2. a. A sharp pinching or wringing pain; often, a momentary local pain; esp. applied to that of gout and rheumatism. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [noun] > sudden pain stitchc1000 showera1300 shutea1300 gridea1400 gripa1400 shota1400 stounda1400 lancing1470 pang1482 twitch?1510 shooting1528 storm1540 stitching1561 stub1587 twinge1608 gird1614 twang1721 tang1724 shoot1756 darting1758 writhe1789 catch1830 lightning pain1860 twitcher1877 rash1900 1608 T. Middleton Mad World, my Masters ii. sig. D You feele as it were a twinge. 1639 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) I. 220 Crewell twinges [of gout]. 1787 J. Wolcot Instr. Celebr. Laureat in Wks. (1812) I. 497 They've felt a pain in all their Toes And often at the twinges started. 1824 Countess Granville Let. 21 Mar. (1894) I. 267 Your..letter..soothed and comforted me during my sharpest twinges [of toothache]. 1827 Edinb. Weekly Jrnl. 28 Feb. I can agree with Lord Ogleby as to his rheumatism, and say, ‘There's a twinge’. 1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic iii. 47 The account of any person having suffered severe pain..produces acute twinges of pain in the corresponding parts of her person. a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 77 When the twinge comes shooting through you. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. vii. 133 The gout..gave him such severe twinges. 1880 L. Stephen Alexander Pope iv. 88 Philosophers capable of rheumatic twinges. b. transferred. A ‘nip’ of cold, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [noun] > sensation of cold > sudden ice bolt1789 twinge1888 1888 E. Gerard Land beyond Forest lv. 360 Alternate twinges of cold and heat. 3. figurative. A sharp mental pain; a pang of shame, remorse, sorrow, or the like; a prick of conscience; in quot. a1745, a stimulating prick. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > [noun] > a pang stitch?c1225 prong1440 twitch?1510 pang1534 pincha1566 aculeusa1612 twinge1622 twang1721 tang1724 twinging1816 brain-ache1836 society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > [noun] > pricking or murmuring of conscience wormOE prick of conscience?c1225 bitingc1440 compunction?a1475 grudge1483 pouncea1500 grutch1509 pincha1566 remurmuration of conscience1611 twinge1622 wringing1623 twinging1816 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. 19 Her feigned pangs cease[d], and those truer ones of loue beganne to manifest themselues, giuing other kinde of twinges. 1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar iv. ii. 48 The Wickedness of this old Villain..gives me a twinge for my own Sin. a1745 J. Swift Serm. viii, in Wks. (1841) II. 157/2 The poorer sort..have no twinges of ambition. 1780 W. Cowper Table Talk 425 Conscience will have twinges now and then. 1800 M. L. Weems Life G. Washington (ed. 2) 30 This could not save poor Jack from the twinges of envy. 1834 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Seine 168 The sudden clang of a church-bell arrests us, like a twinge of remorse. 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. viii. 138 It cost the Vicar some twinges of conscience to persuade him. 1876 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 2nd Ser. vii. 324 Burke's politics gave him some severe twinges. 4. A twist, a turn. literal and figurative. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > misshapenness > [noun] > action or fact of putting or being out of shape > distortion beshrewinga1425 distortion1581 wryness1591 contortion1611 distorture1613 distortedness1684 wringing1706 twisting1725 cross-winding1815 twistification1835 detortion1853 twinge1860 1860 J. G. Holland Miss Gilbert's Career ii. 38 ‘Easy!’ exclaimed Arthur, a half-contemptuous twinge in his lip. 1875 J. Morison in Expositor I. 124 Grotius gave the expression a most unnatural twinge. 5. dialect. An earwig. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Dermaptera > member of (earwig) earwigeOE beetle-wig1595 earworm1598 twitch-ballock1634 forken-robin1691 twitch-bell1722 twinge1790 twitch1790 1790 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2) Twinge, or Twitch, an earwig. North. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) 1863 Mrs. Toogood Specim. Yorks. Dial. (MS.) This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021). twingev.¹ /twɪndʒ/ Forms: Old English twengan ( twæng-), Middle English twenge, Middle English tuenge, Middle English twynch, 1600s twindge, 1600s– twinge. Etymology: Old English twengan, of obscure etymology; there is no evidence of connection with Continental forms from the stem þwing- denoting ‘to constrain, oppress, etc.’ 1. transitive. To pinch, wring, tweak, twitch. Also intransitive (quot. 1858). Obsolete exc. dialect. ΚΠ c1000 in Techmer's Internat. Zeitschr. II. 124/23 Twenge hine siððan mid þara swiþran hande. c1000 in Techmer's Internat. Zeitschr. II. 125/19 Wænd þinne scytefinger adune and twængc hine mid þinum twam fingrum. a1250 Owl & Nightingale 156 Þu hauest clyures swiþe stronge Þu twengest þar mid so doþ a tonge. a1250 Owl & Nightingale 1114 An holeh stoc hwar þu þe mist hude Þat me ne twenge þine hude. c1305 St. Dunstan 81 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 36 Þe deuel he hente bi þe nose: He tuengde and schok hire bi þe nose. 1440 J. Shirley Cron. Dethe James Stewarde (1818) 26 The tourmentours..withe hookid ynstrumentes of yryne,..pynchid and twynchid his theghis, his legges,..and over all his body. 1607 F. Beaumont Woman Hater ii. i. sig. D2^v I do vse to teare their haire, to kick them, and twindge their noses, if they be not carefull in auoiding me. 1619 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher King & No King v. sig. K2 Thus twinge your nose, thus kicke you, and thus tread you. 1628 A. Leighton Appeal to Parl. (1842) x. 195 There are too many flesh-flies, who..twinge and bite such as do deal faithfully with Princes. 1631 B. Jonson New Inne i. iii. 80 To..Twinge three or foure buttons From off my Ladyes gowne. 1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. i. 67 Twinging him by th' Ears, or Nose. 1858 C. Kingsley My Winter-garden in Misc. (1860) I. 146 That flock of long-tailed tit-mice, which were twinging and pecking about the fir-cones. 2. a. †To cause to smart or tingle; to irritate (obsolete); to affect (the body or mind) with a twinge or sharp pain; to prick (the conscience). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > affect with type of pain [verb (transitive)] > affect with sudden pain stitchc1230 stoundc1500 twinge1647 the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > cause of mental anguish or torment > cause anguish to or torment [verb (transitive)] > afflict with pangs pingeOE prickOE bite?c1200 to smite to a person's hearta1225 stingc1386 hita1400 tanga1400 prickle?a1513 pang1520 punch1548 stimulate1548 twinge1647 society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > repent (sin, wrongdoing, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > affect with remorse > prick, smite, etc., with remorse prickOE smitea1382 tanga1400 grudgec1460 to hit home1627 twinge1647 1647 [see twinging n.¹ and adj. at Derivatives]. 1666 J. Bunyan Grace Abounding §184 Nothing did twinge my Conscience like this. 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 114 A willingness to be rid of those gallers that twinge the brain of the stiff maintainer of this. 1686 F. Spence tr. A. Varillas Ἀνεκδοτα Ἑτερουιακα 431 Leo..twing'd him sometimes with severe corrections. 1727 J. Gay Fables I. xxxi. 105 As, twing'd with pain, he pensive sits, And raves, and prays, and swears by fits. 1780 S. J. Pratt Emma Corbett II. 73 His old achs would twinge him a little. 1785 E. Perronet Acrostic in Occas. Verses 203 His mission..Like that dumb brute's, that twing'd a prophet's ear. 1804 M. Edgeworth Out of Debt i, in Pop. Tales I. 321 If any of his father's old notions of economy by chance twinged his conscience. 1816 W. Scott Paul's Lett. to Kinsfolk 229 The Archbishop of Liege..has found his conscience alarmingly twinged. 1893 D. C. Murray Time's Revenges II. xxviii. 208 The old wound twinged him. b. intransitive. To experience a twinge or smart. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > suffer or cause type of pain [verb (intransitive)] > shoot or stab > suffer sudden pain twinge1640 stab1865 the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > suffer anguish or torment [verb (intransitive)] anguisha1400 smoke1548 wring1565 to eat one's (own) heart1590 to bleed inwardlya1616 sting1849 twinge1850 to be hard (sometimes heavily, badly) hit1854 1640 H. Glapthorne Wit in Constable iv. sig. Fiii^v To have your noses Twingd if ours' chance to itch. 1756 E. Perronet Mitre iv. xiii. 220 Shudder ye sires—twinge ev'ry ear. 1850 Sir A. Agnew in McCrie Mem. (1852) viii. 199 Reflection arising and conscience twinging. 1868 [see twinging n.¹ and adj. at Derivatives]. Derivatives twinging n.¹ and adj. /ˈtwɪndʒɪŋ/ ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [adjective] > sudden angrya1500 pang-likea1586 twinging1647 stitching1699 shooting1752 lancing1758 lancinating1762 stabbing1764 catching1820 fulgurating1878 the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > cause of mental anguish or torment > [adjective] > causing a pang stinginga1250 twinging1647 the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > [noun] > a pang stitch?c1225 prong1440 twitch?1510 pang1534 pincha1566 aculeusa1612 twinge1622 twang1721 tang1724 twinging1816 brain-ache1836 society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > [noun] > pricking or murmuring of conscience wormOE prick of conscience?c1225 bitingc1440 compunction?a1475 grudge1483 pouncea1500 grutch1509 pincha1566 remurmuration of conscience1611 twinge1622 wringing1623 twinging1816 1647 J. Sprigge Anglia Rediviva Addr. sig. B3 You, that..have felt the twinging convulsions. 1682 J. Bunyan Greatness of Soul* in Wks. (1853) I. 120 Despair, which is the most twinging stripe of hell. 1816 J. Wilson City of Plague ii. iii. 219 Felt you no little twinging of remorse? 1868 ‘G. Eliot’ Spanish Gypsy i. 25 I've a twinging knee. 1906 Daily Chron. 29 Mar. 6/4 How would he wear..with a twingeing tooth and an influenza cold? twinger n. /ˈtwɪndʒə(r)/ one who or that which twinges. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [noun] > sudden pain > cause of twinger1608 1608 J. Day Law-trickes sig. C2 One Tristella..a twindger, a meere Horsleach, one that will suck out the braines of his treasurie. a1637 B. Jonson Masque of Gypsies 80* in tr. Horace Art of Poetry (1640) There's an old twinger Can shew you the Ginger. 1659 J. Tatham London's Tryumph 14 Ginger, That Nose tosting twinger. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2021). † twingev.² Etymology: Perhaps intended as a figurative use of twinge v.¹, but probably originating in some misunderstanding of earlier glosses. The strong past participle twungen is apparently less original than the weak form twinged. Obsolete. rare. transitive. To oppress, afflict, persecute. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > suffer (adversity or affliction) [verb (transitive)] > afflict > oppress or afflict heavyc897 narroweOE overlayOE overseamOE twingea1300 to weigh downa1340 grieve1340 besit1377 oppressc1384 foila1400 thringa1400 empressc1400 enpressc1400 aska1425 press?a1425 peisea1450 straita1464 constraina1500 overhale1531 to grate on or upon1532 wrack1562 surcharge1592 to lie heavy uponc1595 to weigh back, on one side, to the earth1595 to sit on ——1607 to sit upon ——1607 gall1614 bear1645 weight1647 obsess1648 aggrieve1670 swinge1681 lean1736 gravitate1754 weigh1794 a1300 E.E. Psalter xvi. 10 [xvii. 9] Hile me..Fra face ofe wicked þat twinged me swa. a1300 E.E. Psalter xxxvii[i]. 8 I am twinged, and meked for vnquerte [MS. H. I am meked and twungen smert]. a1300 E.E. Psalter xli. 13 [xlii. 9] Wharfore murned in I go, Whil þat twinges me þe fo? Derivatives twinging n.² ΚΠ a1300 E.E. Psalter xvii. 21 [xviii. 18] Þai forcome me in daie of twinginge. 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