branchlet, twig, sprig
(noun) a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year
twig
(verb) branch out in a twiglike manner; “The lightning bolt twigged in several directions”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
twig (plural twigs)
A small thin branch of a tree or bush.
• tillow
twig (third-person singular simple present twigs, present participle twigging, simple past and past participle twigged)
(transitive) To beat with twigs.
twig (third-person singular simple present twigs, present participle twigging, simple past and past participle twigged)
(colloquial, regional) To realise something; to catch on; to recognize someone or something.
To understand the meaning of (a person); to comprehend.
To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover.
• (to realise something): clock, get it, notice; see also identify
• (to understand the meaning): fathom, figure out, grasp, ken, work out
• (to observe slyly): check out, peep, spy on, surveil
twig (third-person singular simple present twigs, present participle twigging, simple past and past participle twigged)
(obsolete, Scotland) To twitch; to pull; to tweak.
Source: Wiktionary
Twig, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Twigged; p. pr. & vb. n. Twigging.] Etym: [Cf. Tweak.]
Definition: To twitch; to pull; to tweak. [Obs. or Scot.]
Twig, v. t. Etym: [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.
Twig, n. Etym: [AS. twig; akin to D. twijg, OHG. zwig, zwi, G. zweig, and probably to E. two.]
Definition: 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 (Zoöl.), 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. (Zoöl.) 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.
Twig, v. t.
Definition: To beat with twigs.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
