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One-named British model/actress
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twiggy
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Twiggy or La brindille is a 2011 French drama film directed by Emmanuelle Millet.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of ground or a plant English) Having many twigs. 2 (context of a person English) thin and angular.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"slender," 1560s, from twig + -y (2). The famous 1960s English model was born Lesley Hornby (1949). The older adjectival form was twiggen "made of twigs" (1540s).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Twiggy \Twig"gy\, a. Of or pertaining to a twig or twigs; like a twig or twigs; full of twigs; abounding with shoots. `` Twiggy trees.'' --Evelyn.
Usage examples of twiggy.
Crimson-leafed shrubs with blue stems and twiggy trees with copper and silver sprigs bordered each stream.
The model Twiggy and her manager Justin de Villeneuve had just driven up in their new car and came to dinner.
That day Paul had lunch with Twiggy and Derek Taylor at a smart restaurant in Fulham.
One twiggy hand scrabbled a moment at the shattered glass, and was gone.
It was the Frasque, still comatose and curled up inside her force bubble like a huge twiggy foetus.
A lanky, twiggy troll and I stared at each other across the threshold.
His eyes widened, moved reluctantly to the twiggy thing in the middle of the floor.
Queiggy said and as a gesture of trust he extended his hands, letting his fingers turn twiggy and long.
Queiggy extended his hand, allowing just his fingers to change to their twiggy state.
He slept sitting up, cross-legged with his twiggy fingers deep sunk, soaking up the energy, strengthening, and renewing himself, growing younger.
It may also be grown with happy results as shown in the illustration, needing only a well-secured twiggy bush.
In the spring they caught polliwogs along the marshy edges of the pond and climbed trees to stare in wonder at the tiny blue eggs the birds had laid in twiggy nests in the high branches.
Mommy Fortuna crackled her twiggy fingers and the bars were iron again, and the harpy sank down on its perch, waiting.
All around were twiggy oaks, just issuing their gold, and floor spaces diapered with woodruff, with patches of dog-mercury and tufts of hyacinth.
There were some twiggy apple trees, winter-crack trees, and ragged cabbages.