twig

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
美 /twɪɡ/|[tʰw̥ɪɡ]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small thin branch of a tree or bush.
    — They used twigs and leaves as a base to start the fire.
  2. Somebody, or one of their body parts, not looking developed. slang
    — You need to find a source of motivation and play off of that. Whether it be the jock in high school that always called you fat, or the guy who picked on you and called you a twig.
动词 v.
  1. To beat with twigs. transitive
  2. To realise something; to catch on; to recognize someone or something. colloquial,regional
    — He hasn't twigged that we're planning a surprise party for him.
    J'y ai reconnu le particulier que vous m'avez dit. Bien vêtu, ma foi! Chapeau rogné, tout plat, pantalon clair, en fourreau de parapluie, veston court, oh! mais d'un court... enfin, le dernier genre.
  3. To pull Scotland,obsolete
    — Frank shall twig your Nose from your Face
  4. To be realized and understood; to click. intransitive
    — Dries had told us to bring at least twenty litres of water because there was no water in camp and very few tourists stayed there. I knew I wouldn't get a shower for three days, but I wasn't worried about that. It hadn't twigged that the reason we needed to bring our own water was that the camp itself was a warzone.
  5. To twitch
  6. To understand the meaning of (a person); to comprehend.
    — Do you twig me?
  7. To tweak
  8. To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover.
    — Now twig him; now mind him: mark how he hawls his muscles about.

词形变化

twigs plural twigs present,singular,third-person twigging participle,present twigged participle,past twigged past twigs present,singular,third-person twigging participle,present twigged participle,past twigged past twigs present,singular,third-person twigging participle,present twigged participle,past twigged past

词汇关系

近义词
tillow get it notice
衍生词
a twig in a bundle cannot be broken a twig in a bundle is unbreakable battle-twig hop the twig in prime twig lime-twig Macaya green twig anole off one's twig one cannot break a twig in a bundle one can't break a twig in a bundle twig and berries twiglet twig rune twig snake twig wilter you cannot break a twig in a bundle you can't break a twig in a bundle
相关词
twigloo

词源

词源 1
PIE word
*dwóh₁
Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *twīgą
Proto-West Germanic *twīg
Old English twiġ
Middle English twig
English twig
From Middle English twig, twyg, twigge, twygge, from Old English twigg, twicg, from Proto-West Germanic *twiggu (“small twig, shoot”), apparently a diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *twig (“branch, twig”) (whence also Old English twiġ and twiġa), from Proto-Germanic *twīgą, from Proto-Indo-European *dweygʰom, from *dwóh₁. More at two.
Cognates
Cognate with North Frisian twiich, twiig (“twig”), Saterland Frisian Twiech (“branch, twig”), West Frisian twiich (“twig”), Dutch twijg (“twig”), German Zweig (“branch, twig; section”), German Low German Twieg (“branch, twig”), Luxembourgish Zwäig (“twig”), Yiddish צווײַג (tsvayg, “branch”); also Old Church Slavonic двигъ (dvigŭ, “branch”), Albanian degë (“branch”).
词源 2
From Irish and Scottish Gaelic tuig (“to understand”).
词源 3
Compare tweak.
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