twig·gy

(twĭg′ē)

adj. twig·gi·er, twig·gi·est

1. Resembling a twig or twigs, as in slenderness or fragility.

2. Abounding in twigs: a twiggy branch.

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twiggy

(ˈtwɪɡɪ)

adj, -gier or -giest

1. (Botany) of or relating to a twig or twigs

2. covered with twigs

3. slender or fragile

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adj.

twiggy - thin as a twig

twiglike

lean, thin - lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare

twiggy

adjective

Having little flesh or fat on the body:

angular, bony, fleshless, gaunt, lank, lanky, lean, meager, rawboned, scrawny, skinny, slender, slim, spare, thin, weedy.

Idioms: all skin and bones, thin as a rail.

Translations

twiggy

adj

tree etc → voller Zweige

(= very slim) girl (= gertenschlank)

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Our woods teem with them both, and around every swamp may be seen the partridge or rabbit walk, beset with twiggy fences and horse-hair snares, which some cow-boy tends.

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No wonder Twiggy, a symbol of the Swinging Sixties, has a right to the title of the first supermodel.

ICON 70 years of an; Supermodel Twiggy, the face & spirit who put swing into the 60s

Actors Dominic Cooper, Richard E Grant, James Norton and Hayley Mills, along with Twiggy and Sir Michael Palin are among stars taking part in adverts for the Just a Book initiative.

STARS BOOKSHOP BOOST; FINANCE

But in the five decades since she first found fame as the elfin-faced muse with big eyes and long lashes, Twiggy has remarkably never fallen out of fashion.

I DON'T THINK ABOUT AGEING; EDITED BY SALLY MCLEAN; From her big break as a model at just 16 to becoming a star of stage and screen, Twiggy has never gone out of styleI think it's amazing I got through it all unscathed

ONCE celebrated as The Face of '66, this is her face at 67 and it looks like former supermodel Twiggy still likes to keep herself trim.

twigged who it is yet?

Others in attendance included Sixties icon Twiggy, Downton star Jim Carter, celebrity gardener Alan Titchmarsh, adventurer Ben Fogle and presenter Gaby Roslin.

Celebrities in bloom

She was 16 years old and so stick thin that she was promptly nicknamed Twiggy.

Twiggy 'ate like a horse'

Byline: Twiggy became one of the world's first supermodels 50 years ago.

From schoolgirl to supermodel

Twiggy officially retired from modelling in 1970 and embarked on a successful acting career, but has remained in demand for modelling assignments and posed with David Bowie for the cover of his 1973 Pin-Ups album.

From schoolgirl to supermodel; Twiggy became one of the world's first supermodels 50 years ago. Marion McMullen finds out about the waif who became the face of the swinging sixties

I think we should just shoot me now, don't you?" I can't quite imagine uber-glam Twiggy camped out on the sofa and wearing her tracksuit bottoms.

I don't do parties now. I do porridge; One of the world's first supermodels, glamorous granny Twiggy on her love of food, children and her prized sewing machine

BBC1, 9pm Following in the footsteps of Julie Walters, Sheridan Smith, Mary Berry and Billy Connolly, the last in the current series focuses on Twiggy. Four decades ago, Neasdenborn Lesley Hornby, as she was known, found her life transformed when a reporter spotted her photo on the wall of a London hairdresser, and she was dubbed the 'face of the 60s'.

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