Twig \Twig\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Twigged; p. pr. & vb. n. Twigging.]

[Cf. Tweak.]

To twitch; to pull; to tweak. [Obs. or Scot.]

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Twig \Twig\, v. t. [Gael. tuig, or Ir. tuigim I understand.]

1. To understand the meaning of; to comprehend; as, do you twig me? [Colloq.]

--Marryat.

2. To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover. ``Now twig him; now mind him.'' --Foote.

As if he were looking right into your eyes and twigged something there which you had half a mind to conceal. --Hawthorne.

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Twig \Twig\, n. [AS. twig; akin to D. twijg, OHG. zwig, zwi, G. zweig, and probably to E. two.]

A small shoot or branch of a tree or other plant, of no definite length or size.

The Britons had boats made of willow twigs, covered on the outside with hides. --Sir T. Raleigh.

Twig borer (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of small beetles which bore into twigs of shrubs and trees, as the apple-tree twig borer (Amphicerus bicaudatus).

Twig girdler. (Zo["o]l.) See Girdler, 3.

Twig rush (Bot.), any rushlike plant of the genus Cladium having hard, and sometimes prickly-edged, leaves or stalks. See Saw grass, under Saw.

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Twig \Twig\, v. t. To beat with twigs.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)