twitchy
twitchy
Definition
twitchy (twic̸h′ē)
adjective -·i·er, -·i·est
Informal nervous; jittery
twitchy
Usage Examples
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.
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