twig

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Twigged p. pr. & vb. n. Twigging. ] [ Cf. Tweak. ] To twitch; to pull; to tweak. [ Obs. or Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Gael. tuig, or Ir. tuigim I understand. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To understand the meaning of; to comprehend; as, do you twig me? [ Colloq. ] Marryat. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover. “Now twig him; now mind him.” Foote. [ 1913 Webster ]

As if he were looking right into your eyes and twigged something there which you had half a mind to conceal. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. twig; akin to D. twijg, OHG. zwīg, zwī, G. zweig, and probably to E. two. ] A small shoot or branch of a tree or other plant, of no definite length or size. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Britons had boats made of willow twigs, covered on the outside with hides. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

Twig borer (Zool.), any one of several species of small beetles which bore into twigs of shrubs and trees, as the apple-tree twig borer (Amphicerus bicaudatus). --
Twig girdler. (Zool.) See Girdler, 3. --
Twig rush (Bot.), any rushlike plant of the genus Cladium having hard, and sometimes prickly-edged, leaves or stalks. See Saw grass, under Saw. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Made of twigs; wicker. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A fornicator. [ Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a twig or twigs; like a twig or twigs; full of twigs; abounding with shoots. “ Twiggy trees.” Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To twit. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

obs. p. p. of Twitch. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]