twigとは

発音

• (米国用法) IPA^(key): /twɪɡ/
• Rhymes: -ɪɡ

名詞

twig (複数形 twigs)

1. A small thin branch of a tree or bush.

   They used twigs and leaves as a base to start the fire.

   • 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict‎^[1]:

     A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.

同意語

• tillow

派生語

• off one's twig
• twig and berries

動詞

twig (三人称単数 現在形 twigs, 現在分詞 twigging, 過去形および過去分詞形 twigged)

1. (transitive) To beat with twigs.

語源 2

From Irish and Scottish Gaelic tuig (“to understand”).

動詞

twig (三人称単数 現在形 twigs, 現在分詞 twigging, 過去形および過去分詞形 twigged)

1. (colloquial, regional) To realise something; to catch on.

   • He hasn't twigged that we're planning a surprise party for him.

   • 2012 May 30, John E. McIntyre, “A future for copy editors”, in Baltimore Sun‎^[2]:

     Well, with fewer people doing two or three times the work, you may have already twigged to this.

2. To understand the meaning of (a person); to comprehend.

   Do you twig me?

3. To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover.
   • Foote

     Now twig him; now mind him.

   • Hawthorne

     as if he were looking right into your eyes and twigged something there which you had half a mind to conceal

語源 3

Compare tweak.

動詞

twig (三人称単数 現在形 twigs, 現在分詞 twigging, 過去形および過去分詞形 twigged)

1. (obsolete, Scotland) To twitch; to pull; to tweak.