Twinge

Definition: Twinge

Twinge

Noun

1. Sudden sharp painful emotion; "pangs of regret" or "twinges of conscience".

2. A sharp stab of pain.

Verb

1. Cause a stinging pain.

2. Feel a sudden sharp, local pain.

3. Squeeze tightly between the fingers; "He pinched her behind"; "She squeezed the bottle".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "twinge" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)

Synonyms: Twinge

Penitence

Self-reproach, self-reproof, self-accusation, self-condemnation, self-humiliation; stings of conscience, pangs of conscience, qualms of conscience, prickings of conscience, twinge of conscience, twitch of conscience, touch of conscience, voice of conscience; compunctious visitings of nature.

Physical Pain

Verb: feel pain, experience pain, suffer pain, undergo pain. Noun: suffer, ache, smart, bleed; tingle, shoot; twinge, twitch, lancinate; writhe, wince, make a wry face; sit on thorns, sit on pins and needles.

Noun: pain; suffering, sufferance, suffrance; bodily pain, physical pain, bodily suffering, physical suffering, body pain; mental suffering; dolour, ache; aching. Verb: smart; shoot, shooting; twinge, twitch, gripe, headache, stomach ache, heartburn, angina, angina pectoris; hurt, cut; sore, soreness; discomfort, malaise; cephalalgia, earache, gout, ischiagra, lumbago, neuralgia, odontalgia, otalgia, podagra, rheumatism, sciatica; tic douloureux, toothache, tormina, torticollis.

Unwillingness

Scrupulousness, scrupulosity; qualms of conscience, twinge of conscience; delicacy, demur, scruple, qualm, shrinking, recoil; hesitation; (irresolution); fastidiousness.

Crosswords: Twinge

A twinge at the small of your back as the poison seizes your nervous system - (The Rock; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Every Twinge a Verdict (reference)

• Timothy Twinge (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "twinge": have a twinge ♦ twinge of conscience ♦ without a twinge of conscience. Additional references.

Albanian

sëmbim (grip, pang, prick, prickle, stab), e therur (pin). (various references)

Arabic 

‏وخز (jab, jabbing, pang, prickle, sting, thrusting, tickling), ‏طعنة (cut, hurt, prick, stab, stick, thrust), ‏خز (prick, prickle), ‏شعر بوخزة حادة عابرة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

угризение (compunction, qualm, remorse), силна болка (anguish, pang), щракане (click), щракам (crack), внезапна болка, боля (pain), прещраквам, пристъп (accession, attack, bout, eruption, fit, go, onslaught, paroxysm, seizure, spasm). (various references)

Chinese 

刺痛. (various references)

Czech

hryzat (gnaw, worry), bodavá bolest (pang), škubnutí (jerk, lurch, pluck, pull, quirk, stab, tug, twitch, yank). (various references)

Farsi 

پیچیدن (Complicate, Envelop, Enwrap, Fake, Impact, Lap, Nest, Reverberate, Roll, Screw, Swab, Swath, Swathe, Tweak, Twist, Wattle, Wind, Wrap), نیش (Bite, Nip, Prick, Sting, Tang, Tooth), تیرکشیدن (Pang, Stab, Sting), سوزش (Ignition, Irritation, Nip, Sting, Urticaria(L)), سرزنش وجدان , دورزدن (Circle, Compass, Recur, Revolve, Round, Skirt), دردکشیدن (Pain), دردشدیدوناگهانی . (various references)

French

tiraillement, pincement, petit remords, avoir un pincement au c�"ur, éprouver un certain remords, élancement. (various references)

German

Stich (bite, engraving, grasp, hint, jab, lurch, pang, piercing pain, prick, puncture, spades, stab, stab wound, sting, stitch, suggestion, taint, thrust, tinge, trick), Stechen (be prickly, beat down, bite, check out, clock in, clock on, cut, engrave, jab, kill, pang, pick, Pierce, prick, prickle, puncture, ring in, run off, spear, stab, stick, sting, take, take the trick). (various references)

Greek 

κεντώ (embroider, filigree, goad, jab, nettle, nip, pick, pique, poke, prick, prickle, prod, puncture, spur, stick, velicate), σούβλισμα (jab, roasting on a spit), πονώ (ache, ail, be in pain, hurt, pain, rankle, smart), τσιμπώ (bite, nab, nibble, nip, pinch, sting, stung, tweak), οξύσ πόνοσ (acute pain). (various references)

Hebrew 

מוסר כליות (mind conscience, pangs of conscience, remorse, repentance), כאב חריף, �"קיר�" (biting, insinuation, jab, prick, stab, stabbing, sting). (various references)

Hungarian

szúró fájdalom (mordant pain, pang, pull, stab, stitch). (various references)

Italian

rimorso (prick, regret, remorse), fitta (sharp pain, stab, stitch, throe), dolore lancinante. (various references)

Manx

minniag (a tiny person, bite, bite of insect, diminutive person, nip, pinch, small person, very small piece). (various references)

Pig Latin

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Portuguese

remorso (compunction, regret, remorse, worm), pontada (stitch), dor aguda e súbita. (various references)

Romanian

spasm (grimace, jerk, pang, spasm), simţi o durere ascuţitã, junghi (pang, stab, stitch), durere bruscã (pang), înţepãturã (jeer, jest, parting shot, prick, shaft, sting). (various references)

Russian 

угрызение, приступ боли. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

probadanje (sticking), griža (worry), žiganje (pang, shooting). (various references)

Spanish

punzada (jab, pang, prick, pricking, shoot, stitch). (various references)

Swedish

svida (smart), sting (kick, prick, punch, sting, zing), stickande smärta, sticka (clear off, clear out, dig, hook it, jab, knit, knitting needle, knitting-needle, Lam, light out, match, pick, prick, prickle, prod, scoot, scram, spill, splinter, split, stab, stick, sting, take french leave, thrust, tingle, vamoose, welsh), stick (bite, cheese it, cut, dig, get, jab, prick, puncture, scat, shove off, skiddoo, stick, thrust), hugg (blow, chop, cut, dig, grab, hack, slash, snatch, stab), göra ont (hurt, pain). (various references)

Turkish

sancımak (ache, shoot), sancılanmak (feel pains, have an ache, travail), sancılandırmak, sancı (ache, colic, gripes, pain, pang, stitch, throe, travail). (various references)

Ukrainian

муки (bale, sorrows), приступ різкого болю. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "twinge": twinged, twingeing, twinges. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Twinge" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: thinge, Thingol, tingey, Tlingit, Tringo, twanger, twangy, twegen, tweng, Twente, twiga, twige, twince, twinen, twiney, twing, twingy, twinke, twngo, winge. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tewing.

-1 letter: tinge, twine.

-2 letters: gent, gien, newt, nite, tine, ting, twig, twin, went, wine, wing, wite.

-3 letters: eng, gen, get, gie, gin, git, net, new, nit, teg, ten, tew, tie, tin, wen, wet, wig, win, wit.

-4 letters: en, et, in, it, ne, ti, we.

+1 letter: stewing, twiggen, twinged, twinges, weeting, welting, westing, wetting, winglet.

+2 letters: bitewing, leftwing, strewing, sweating, sweeting, toweling, towering, twangier, tweaking, tweeting, tweezing, unweight, watering, weltings, westings, wettings, whetting, wingiest, winglets, wresting.

+3 letters: bestowing, bitewings, entwining, nightwear, rewetting, rewriting, sweetings, swingiest, towelings, towelling, troweling, twangiest, tweedling, twingeing, unweeting, unweights, waterings, weeknight, weighting, weltering, westering, whitening, whitewing, wintering, withering, wreathing, wrestling, wuthering.