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twiggy

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twig·gy  (twg)
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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Adj.1.twiggytwiggy - 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
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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.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
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