twinge
Significat
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- To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.
- To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.
- To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain.
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Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/twɪnd͡ʒ/
Etimologia
From Middle English twengen, from Old English twenġan (“to pinch, squeeze, twinge”), from Proto-West Germanic *twangijan, from Proto-Germanic *twangijaną (“to jam, pinch”), causative of Proto-Germanic *twinganą (“to press, clamp”), of uncertain origin, but probably related to *þwangiz (“belt, strap, clamp”). See also Old High German zwengen (“to pinch”), Old English twingan (“to press, force”).
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