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n. [A-S. twig, from twi, twig, two, q. d. the bisection or division of the trunk; L. Ger. twieg, twoog, D. twijg, O. H. Ger. zwig, zwi, N. H. Ger. zweig.] A small shoot or branch of a tree or other plant, of no definite length or size.
The Britons had boats made of willow twigs, covered on the outside with hides. Raleigh.
v. t. To beat with twigs.
v. t. 1. To twitch; to pull; to tweak. [Obs.] 2. To understand the meaning of; as, do you twig me? [Colloq. and low.] Marryatt. 3. To observe slyly. “Now twig him; now mind him.” Foote.
His exceedingly homely and wrinkled face, held a little on one side, twinkles at you with the shrewdest complacency, as if he were looking right into your eyes, and twigged something there which you had half a mind to conceal from him. Hawthorne.