twig
Plural: twigs
Noun
- a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year
- A small thin branch of a tree or bush.
- Somebody, or one of their body parts, not looking developed.
Verb
Verb Forms: twigged, twigging, twigs
- To understand or realize something suddenly.
- branch out in a twiglike manner
- "The lightning bolt twigged in several directions"
- understand, usually after some initial difficulty
- To beat with twigs.
- To realise something; to catch on; to recognize someone or something.
- To be realized and understood; to click.
- To understand the meaning of (a person); to comprehend.
- To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover.
- To pull
- To twitch
- To tweak
Examples
- Do you twig me?
- He hasn't twigged that we're planning a surprise party for him.
- He suddenly TWIGGED that by adding an ’S’, he could form a bingo.
- They used twigs and leaves as a base to start the fire.
Origin / Etymology
PIE word
*dwóh₁
From Middle English twig, twyg, twigge, twygge, from Old English twigg, twicg, from Proto-West Germanic *twiggu (“small twig, shoot”), apparently a diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *twig (“branch, twig”) (whence also Old English twiġ and twiġa), from Proto-Germanic *twīgą (compare West Frisian twiich, Dutch twijg, German Zweig), from Proto-Indo-European *dweygʰom (compare Old Church Slavonic двигъ (dvigŭ, “branch”), Albanian degë (“branch”)), from *dwóh₁. More at two.
Synonyms
branchlet, catch on, cotton on, get it, get onto, get wise, latch on, sprig, tumble, check out, clock, fathom, figure out, grasp, identify, ken, notice, peep, spy on, surveil, tillow, work out
Scrabble Score: 8
twig: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordtwig: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
twig: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary