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twitch
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English twicchen, from Old English *twi??an, from Proto-West Germanic *twikkijan (“to nail, pin, fasten, clasp, pinch”). Cognate with English tweak, Low German twikken, German Low German twicken (“to pinch, pinch off”), zweck?n and gizwickan (> German zwicken (“to pinch”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tw?t??/, [t?w??t??]
- Rhymes: -?t?
Noun
twitch (countable and uncountable, plural twitches)
- A brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again; a spasm.
- (informal) Action of spotting or seeking out a bird, especially a rare one.
- (farriery) A stick with a hole in one end through which passes a loop, which can be drawn tightly over the upper lip or an ear of a horse and twisted to keep the animal quiet during minor surgery.
- Synonym: barnacle
- 1861, John Henry Walsh, The Horse in the Stable and in the Field
- THE TWITCH is a short stick of strong ash, about the size of a mopstick, with a hole pierced near the end, through which is passed a piece of strong but small cord, and tied in a loop large enough to admit the open hand freely.
- (physiology) A brief, contractile response of a skeletal muscle elicited by a single maximal volley of impulses in the neurons supplying it.
- (mining) The sudden narrowing almost to nothing of a vein of ore.
- (birdwatching) A trip taken in order to observe a rare bird.
Derived terms
- nervous twitch
- twitch game
Translations
References
- Twitch in The Free Dictionary (Medicine)
Verb
twitch (third-person singular simple present twitches, present participle twitching, simple past and past participle twitched)
- (intransitive) To perform a twitch; spasm.
- (transitive) To cause to twitch; spasm.
- 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
- Their feet padded softly on the ground, and they crept quite close to him, twitching their noses...
- 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
- (transitive) To jerk sharply and briefly.
- Thrice they twitched the diamond in her ear.
- (obsolete) To exert oneself. [15th-17th c.]
- (transitive) To spot or seek out a bird, especially a rare one.
- 1995, Quarterly Review of Biology vol. 70 p. 348:
- "The Birdwatchers Handbook ... will be a clear asset to those who 'twitch' in Europe."
- 2003, Mark Cocker, Birders: Tales of a Tribe [1], ?ISBN, page 52:
- "But the key revelation from twitching that wonderful Iceland Gull on 10 March 1974 wasn't its eroticism. It was the sheer innocence of it."
- 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch: One Man, One Continent, a Race Against Time [2], ?ISBN, page 119:
- "I hadn't seen John since I went to Adelaide to (unsuccessfully) twitch the '87 Northern Shoveler, when I was a skinny, eighteen- year-old kid. "
- 1995, Quarterly Review of Biology vol. 70 p. 348:
Translations
Usage notes
When used of birdwatchers by ignorant outsiders, this term frequently carries a negative connotation.
Derived terms
- atwitch
Etymology 2
alternate of quitch
Noun
twitch (uncountable)
- couch grass (Elymus repens; a species of grass, often considered as a weed)
Translations
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tic
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French tic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?k/
- Rhymes: -?k
- Homophone: tick
Noun
tic (plural tics)
- A sudden, nonrhythmic motor movement or vocalization.
- (by extension) Something that is done or produced habitually or characteristically.
- (abbreviation, informal) ticket
Translations
Verb
tic (third-person singular simple present tics, present participle ticcing, simple past and past participle ticced)
- (intransitive) To exhibit a tic; to undergo a sudden, semi-voluntary muscle movement.
Translations
See also
- tic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- CTI, ICT, TCI, cit, cit.
Acholi
Noun
tic
- work
Italian
Noun
tic m (invariable)
- tic, twitch
Latvian
Verb
tic
- 3rd person singular present indicative form of tic?t
- 3rd person plural present indicative form of tic?t
- (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of tic?t
- (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of tic?t
Spanish
Noun
tic m (plural tics)
- tic (movement)
- tick (written mark)
- tick (sound)
Related terms
- tictac/tic-tac
- tictaquear
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