twinge

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To have a sudden, pinching or sharp pain in a specific part of the body, like a twitch.

   “My side twinges if I sit too long.”

2. fiil To pull and twist.

   “That ring-dove, who was cooing half-a-mile away, has hushed his moan; that flock of long-tailed titmice, which were twinging and pecking about the fir-cones a few minutes since, are gone; and now there is not even a gnat to quiver in the slant sun-rays.”

3. fiil To pull and twist (someone or something); to pinch, to tweak, to twitch, to wring.

   “I tell thee, I do vſe to teare their hair, to kick them, and to tvvindge their noſes, if they be not carefull in auoiding me.”

4. fiil To affect or torment (someone, their mind, or part of their body) with one or more sudden, pinching or sharp pains; to irritate.

   “For the Chiefeſt cauſe of pain in VVounds of the nerves is the excrementitious matter ſhut up; vvhich being overlong detayned getteth to it ſelf a depraved quality, pulleth and tvvingeth the Nerves, and at length putrifieth.”

5. fiil To prick or stimulate (one's conscience).

   “[N]othing did tvvinge my Conſcience like this: Every time that I thought of the Lord Jeſus, of his Grace, Love, Goodneſs, Kindneſs, Gentleneſs, Meekneſs, Death, Blood, Promiſes and bleſſed Exhortations, Comforts and Conſolations, it vvent to my Soul like a Svvord; […]”

6. isim A sudden, pinching or sharp pain in a specific part of the body, especially one lasting for a short time.

   “I got a twinge in my arm.”

7. isim A turn, a twist.

   “"Easy!" exclaimed Arthur, a half-contemptuous twinge in his lip, and added: "I take it that the simple question with me is, what is right, and what is best."”

8. isim A sudden, sharp feeling of an emotional or mental nature, as of guilt or sadness; a pang, a paroxysm, a throe; also, a prick of the conscience.

   “a twinge of embarrassment”

9. isim A sudden, sharp occurrence of something; a nip.
10. isim Synonym of earwig (“insect of the order Dermaptera”).
11. isim An act of pulling and twisting; a pinch, a tweak, a twitch.

    “[T]he ſpirite of Jeſus hath (as it were) nipped my herte alſo with a litell twynge, […]”