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Mental or emotional pang
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twinge
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Word definitions for twinge in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a pang/stab/twinge of jealousy (= a sudden feeling of jealousy ) ▪ Polly felt a sharp pang of jealousy when she saw Paul with Suzanne. a pang/twinge/stab of guilt ▪ Richard felt a pang of guilt, knowing that he had forgotten ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, "a pinch, a nipping," from obsolete verb twinge "to pinch, tweak," from Old English twengan "to pinch," from Proto-Germanic *twangjan (cognates: Old Frisian thwinga , Old Norse þvinga , Danish tvinge , Dutch dwingen , Old High German thwingan , German ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Twinge \Twinge\, n. A pinch; a tweak; a twitch. A master that gives you . . . twinges by the ears. --L' Estrange. A sudden sharp pain; a darting local pain of momentary continuance; as, a twinge in the arm or side. `` A twinge for my own sin.'' ...
Usage examples of twinge.
This was familiar territory to Alec, and he felt a twinge of sadness as he looked around.
She was banking on the zoned and shut off his IV drip of blockers without a twinge of remorse.
It gave Willie a twinge to see how easily the coxswain was cowed out of even that small comfort.
She waved again, with more enthusiasm, and the movement caused a twinge of pain from a bruise Cullum had left on her shoulder.
He poured two, sipped at the Downer wine and tried to warm the tremors from his limbs, the twinges of pain from his chest.
But a twinge of cramp in my left arm, and a healthy sneeze, which frightened a score of bats overhead nearly out of their senses, was reassuring on this point, and rubbing away the cramp and staggering to my feet, I looked about at the strange surroundings.
He felt the twinge of pain as Ferdie the Frug stirred into comprehension of what was going to happen.
Harriet felt a twinge of guilt because she had seen a lot more than Ole Golly thought she had.
Freud, Leonardo, Orwell, Alice, and the Great Gonzo, Ralph Steadman now offers the triography of his artistic alter ego, the redoubtable Gavin Twinge.
Though Jacques, the kindliest soul imaginable, was genuinely fond of his Master, I should very much like to know what was going through his mind, if not on the spur of the moment, then at least when he had checked that the fall had done no serious damage, and whether he was able to suppress a momentary twinge of secret exultation prompted by an accident which would teach his Master what it was like to have an injured knee.
But still, Laure felt a twinge of regret and responsibility as she regarded the cooing pair, well knowing that tender turtledove was a chicken hawk in disguise.
Ercott felt that jealous twinge, soon lost this time in the motherliness of a childless woman for her husband.
That sundering ripped me like a leaf, but it was a twinge compared to the tug that is on me now.
He marked his own cave on the hillside below, where Tek and the twins now doubtless sheltered, and felt a twinge.
What little that remained unobliterated in the way of deep human emotions in Bill twinged ever so slightly, lifted their heads feebly from the abyssal depths of depression and, like frail shoots in April lured on by the siren promise of spring, began to flower with weensy buds of hope.