twig

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

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.

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

💐

gałązka

galho