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twig 1 Noun a small branch or shoot of a tree [Old English twigge] twiggy adj twig 2 Verb [twigging, twigged] Informal to realize or understand: I should have twigged it earlier [origin unknown]
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twig 1 twig 2 verb Brit. (informal) understand, get, see, find out, grasp, make out, rumble Brit. (informal) catch on (informal) comprehend, fathom, tumble to (informal) |
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He broke a twig from a bush, dipped it into a pool of blood and wrote rapidly. For when the dead-leaf butterfly is in danger, it clings to the side of a twig, and what it says to its foe is practically this: "I am not a butterfly, I am a dead leaf, and can be of no use to thee. A twig cracked sharply under Pollyanna's foot, and the man turned his head. |
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