Twig definition
A young shoot representing the current season's growth of a woody plant.
noun
Any small, leafless branch of a woody plant.
noun
To observe or notice.
verb
To understand or figure out.
verb
To observe.
verb
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(colloquial, regional) To realise something; to catch on.
- 2012 May 30, John E. McIntyre, “A future for copy editors", Baltimore Sun.Well, with fewer people doing two or three times the work, you may have already twigged to this.
verb
To understand the meaning of (a person); to comprehend.
Do you twig me?
verb
To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover.
verb
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
verb
The definition of a twig is a small branch on a tree.
A little tree branch growing off of a larger branch is an example of a twig.
noun
To be or become aware of the situation; understand.
verb
The current style; the fashion.
noun
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A small, slender branch or shoot of a tree or shrub.
noun
To understand.
verb
Origin of twig
- 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
- Origin unknown
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- 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.
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- From Irish and Scottish Gaelic tuig (“to understand").
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- Compare tweak.
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