Twig Definition

twĭg
twigged, twigging, twigs
noun
twigs
A young shoot representing the current season's growth of a woody plant.
American Heritage
A small, slender branch or shoot of a tree or shrub.
Webster's New World
The current style; the fashion.
American Heritage

A small thin branch of a tree or bush.

They used twigs and leaves as a base to start the fire.
Wiktionary
verb
twigged, twigging, twigs
To observe.
Webster's New World
To understand.
Webster's New World
To be or become aware of the situation; understand.
American Heritage

To beat with twigs.

Wiktionary

(colloquial, regional) To realise something; to catch on.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Twig

Noun

Singular:
twig
Plural:
twigs

Origin of Twig

  • Old English twigge, from Proto-Germanic *twÄ«gÄ… (compare West Frisian twiich, Dutch twijg, German Zweig), from Proto-Indo-European *dwigha (compare Old Church Slavonic [script?] (dvigÅ­, “branch"), Albanian degë 'id.'), from *dwó 'two'. More at two.

    From Wiktionary

  • Perhaps from Irish Gaelic tuig- stem of tuigim I understand from Old Irish tuicim

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English from Old English twigge dwo- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Irish and Scottish Gaelic tuig (“to understand").

    From Wiktionary

  • Origin unknown

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Compare tweak.

    From Wiktionary

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