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Thesaurus: twig

To twitch; to pull; to tweak.

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  1. v. t. To twitch; to pull; to tweak.
  2. v. t. To understand the meaning of; to comprehend; as, do you twig me?
  3. v. t. To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover.
  4. n. A small shoot or branch of a tree or other plant, of no definite length or size.
  5. v. t. To beat with twigs.
  6. n. a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year
  7. v. branch out in a twiglike manner
  8. v. understand, usually after some initial difficulty
  9. n:100 v. branch out in a twiglike manner