twig

Meaning

Noun

1. A small thin branch of a tree or bush.
2. (slang) Somebody, or one of their body parts, not looking developed.

Verb

To beat with twigs.

Verb

1. (colloquial, regional) To realise something; to catch on; to recognize someone or something.
2. (intransitive) To be realized and understood; to click.
3. To understand the meaning of (a person); to comprehend.
4. To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover.

Verb

1. (Scotland, obsolete) To pull
2. To twitch
3. To tweak

Synonyms

branch

sprig

stick

switch

bough

small branch

branchlet

limb

shoot

spray

realize

sprout

diviner

get it

rod

small stick

cotton on

see

👀

small bough

get onto

get wise

slip

stem

leaf

birch

tumble

verse

ferule

wand

offshoot

whip

withe

catch on

get

latch on

scion

bamboo

🎍

pick things up

bow

🙇

brushwood

burgeon

cane

cutting

fashion

fence

figure out

grok

jut

know

leg

🦵

Translations

Zweig

rameau

rama

brindille

ramita

ramo

Ast

twijg

fuscello

branche

ramoscello

tige

ramo

💐

galho

Pronounced as (IPA)

/twɪɡ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: twig

Inherited from Old English: twiġ

Cognate with Western Frisian: twiich

Cognate with Dutch: twijg

Cognate with German: Zweig

Cognate with Church Slavic: двигъ

Cognate with Albanian: degë

In summary

PIE word
*dwóh₁
From Middle English twig, twyg, twigge, twygge, from Old English twigg, twicg, from Proto-West Germanic *twiggu (“small twig, shoot”), apparently a diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *twig (“branch, twig”) (whence also Old English twiġ and twiġa), from Proto-Germanic *twīgą (compare West Frisian twiich, Dutch twijg, German Zweig), from Proto-Indo-European *dweygʰom (compare Old Church Slavonic двигъ (dvigŭ, “branch”), Albanian degë (“branch”)), from *dwóh₁. More at two.