twigとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (米国用法) IPA^(key): /twɪɡ/, [tʰw̥ɪɡ]
• 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
• twiglet

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; to recognize someone or something.

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

   • 1765, “A Song in High Life”, in The Merry Medley, volume 1, London: W. Hoggard, page 35:

     I pray you now send me some dub, / A bottle or two to the needy. / I beg you won't bring it yourself, / The harman is at the Old-Bailey; / I'd rather you'd send it behalf, / For, if they twig you they'll nail you.

   • 1915, “Putting on the Screw”, in Caught in the Net, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, translation of Les Esclaves de Paris by Émile Gaboriau, page 23:

     I twigged him at once, by the description you gave me. I never see a cove togged out as he was,—tall hat, light sit-down-upons, and a short coat—wasn't it cut short! but in really bang-up style.

     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.

   • 2012 May 30, McIntyre, John E., “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.
   • 1763, Foote, Samuel, The Mayor of Garratt, act 2:

     Now twig him; now mind him: mark how he hawls his muscles about.

   • 1863, Hawthorne, Nathaniel, Our Old Home:

     This excellent man appears to have sunk into himself in a sitting posture, […] while 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.

同意語

• (to realise something): clock, get it, notice; see also Thesaurus:identify
• (to understand the meaning): fathom, figure out, grasp, ken, work out
• (to observe slyly): check out, peep, spy on, surveil

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.

語源

From Proto-Germanic *twigą.

発音

• IPA^(key): /twij/

名詞

twiġ n

1. twig
2. branch

語形変化