22 March 2015

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twig (1)
noun

1. a slender shoot of a tree or other plant.
2. a small offshoot from a branch or stem.
3. a small, dry, woody piece fallen from a branch:
a fire of twigs.
4. Anatomy. one of the minute branches of a blood vessel or nerve
    

Related forms
twigless, adjective; twiglike, adjective

Origin : before 950; Middle English; Old English twig, twigge, orig. (something) divided in two; akin to Old High German zwīg (German Zweig), Dutchtwijg; compare Sanskrit dvikás double
       

Arbor scientie venerabilis et celitus illuminati patris Raymundi Lulii Maioricensis, Lyon 1515.

twig (2)
verb, British (used with object), twigged, twigging.
1. to look at; observe:
Now, twig the man climbing there, will you?
2. to see; perceive:
Do you twig the difference in colors?
3. to understand.verb (used without object), twigged, twigging.
4. to understand.
            
Origin :
1755-65 < Irish tuigim I understand, with English w reflecting the offglide before i of the velarized Irish t typical of southern Ireland


Charles Darwin, sketch of the origin of species - notebook B (1837)
            
twig (3)
noun, British
1. style; fashion.

Origin :
1805-15; origin uncertain
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