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US
/ˈtwɪɡ/
]
[ UK /twˈɪɡ/ ]
[ UK /twˈɪɡ/ ]
VERB
-
branch out in a twiglike manner
The lightning bolt twigged in several directions -
understand, usually after some initial difficulty
She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on
NOUN
- a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year
How To Use twig In A Sentence
- Donald, a Macgregor's bowerbird, lives in the dark woods of the Adelbert Range of Papua New Guinea. Here, atop a mossy platform and around a young sapling, he has woven his spire of sticks and twigs.
- They used dry twigs to start the fire.
- On a tree that is virtually bare, one can often see a solitary leaf still fluttering on a top twig. Times, Sunday Times
- The typical Ruby-crowned Kinglet nest is deep and is suspended from two hanging twigs.
- We're sitting in the middle of a gay pub, and - typically for a bunch of straight guys, I muse - they haven't twigged at all.
- My son caught it by knocking it off the car with a twig, then coaxing it on to a piece of card, and then putting it in a jam jar.
- A young twig is easier twisted than an old tree.
- He heard the sharp crack of a twig.
- Magpies are also building their domed nests of long twigs in the trees, but have been finding it hard in the strong winds. Times, Sunday Times
- The twigs and pebbles and little heaps of dirt were apparently his attempt to recreate the house in miniature. SACRAMENT
