twitchy

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• get: Some of my mates are getting a bit twitchy now ahead of next week's CL qualifier.
• make: The government keeps marking schools on their test scores - this makes teachers really twitchy.

Modifying Another Word

• little: But every time there's a rumble of a revival we get a little twitchy.
• too: If you are too rough with the throttle, or turn-in too hard, you make the car too twitchy.
• very: It was nervous at the rear and very twitchy even in a straight line.
• so: She didn't know why she felt so twitchy, so drawn to the Thames.
• slightly: That said, there's little feedback and things can get slightly twitchy on the motorway because of this steering sharpness.
• quite: Toward the end of my pregnancy she seemed quite twitchy, sending me up to the hospital a couple of times for monitoring.

Used with adjective complement

• feel: She didn't know why she felt so twitchy, so drawn to the Thames.
• get: A lot of the hopefuls are starting to get twitchy with the way they are being locked in.
• seem: Toward the end of my pregnancy she seemed quite twitchy, sending me up to the hospital a couple of times for monitoring.
• look: Wound tighter than clockwork frog, she looks so twitchy that you expect her to develop some kind of tic.

Modifies a noun

• moment: That said, I did have a twitchy moment, watching this morning's interview.
• handling: For a car that looked so good it was a bit of a disappointment, with nervous steering and twitchy handling.
• paranoia: She looks great and a bit gothy, and does a nice line in twitchy paranoia masking great strength.
• nose: Because hamsters, with their little fluffy twitchy noses, really are intrinsically funny.
• movement: The typical twitchy movements of partial reversal may also be seen, and the patient may become distressed and agitated.
• man: We see a short haired, twitchy man in the back sketching and looking at the model and sketching.