twinged

Verb

twinge (third-person singular simple present twinges, present participle twingeing or twinging, simple past and past participle twinged)

1. (intransitive) To have a sudden, pinching or sharp pain in a specific part of the body, like a twitch.
   • My side twinges if I sit too long.
2. (dialectal, intransitive, obsolete except UK) To pull and twist.
   • That ring-dove, who was cooing half-a-mile away, has hushed his moan; that flock of long-tailed titmice, which were twinging and pecking about the fir-cones a few minutes since, are gone; and now there is not even a gnat to quiver in the slant sun-rays.1858 April, Charles Kingsley, “My Winter-garden”, in Miscellanies […], volume I, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, […], published 1859, →OCLC, page 146
3. (dialectal, obsolete, transitive, except UK) To pull and twist (someone or something); to pinch, to tweak, to twitch, to wring.
   • I tell thee, I do vſe to teare their hair, to kick them, and to tvvindge their noſes, if they be not carefull in auoiding me.1606 (date written), [Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher], The Woman Hater. […], London: […] [Robert Raworth], and are to be sold by John Hodgets […], published 1607, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, signature...
4. (obsolete, transitive) To affect or torment (someone, their mind, or part of their body) with one or more sudden, pinching or sharp pains; to irritate.
   • For the Chiefeſt cauſe of pain in VVounds of the nerves is the excrementitious matter ſhut up; vvhich being overlong detayned getteth to it ſelf a depraved quality, pulleth and tvvingeth the Nerves, and at length putrifieth.1661, Daniel Sennert, “Of the Wounds of the Nerves, and Tendons, in General, and of the Pricking of the Nerves”, in [Nicholas Culpeper; Abdiah Cole], transl., The Art of Chirurgery, Explained in Six...
5. (figuratively, obsolete, transitive) To prick or stimulate (one's conscience).
   • [N]othing did tvvinge my Conſcience like this: Every time that I thought of the Lord Jeſus, of his Grace, Love, Goodneſs, Kindneſs, Gentleneſs, Meekneſs, Death, Blood, Promiſes and bleſſed Exhortations, Comforts and Conſolations, it vvent to my Soul like a Svvord; […]1692, John Bunyan, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners: […], 7th edition, London: […] Robert Ponder, […], →OCLC, paragraph 184, page 89

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