twig2 (twig)

t.; pret. and pp. twigged, ppr. twigging. [A var. of twick, una ibilated form of twitch: see twick, twitch1, and ef. tweak1.] To twitch; jerk. [Scotch.] Not one kynge hath bene in Englande sens the conquest but they haue twygged hym one way or other, and had theyr false flynges at him. Bp . Bale , Apology, fol. 142. Let rant in billies twig the string, An' for an it her mutchkin ring. Morison , Poems, p. 78. (Jamie son.) Tu er, January's Husbandry. Now, Benedicite, her mother said; And hast thou beene already such a twigger ? Pasquil's Night Cap (1612). ( Nares .) The mother of her was a good twigger the whilst. Middle ton, No Wit like a Woman's, iv. 1.