Definitions for twig

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Spelling: [twig]
IPA: /twɪg/

Twig is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in twig (gitw).

Definitions for twig

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:
  4. Anatomy. one of the minute branches of a blood vessel or nerve.
  5. style; fashion.

verb (used with object)

  1. to look at; observe:
  2. to see; perceive:
  3. to understand.

verb (used without object)

  1. to understand.

Origin of twig

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

Examples for twig

The painter would not depict every twig, as would the naturalist.

The snapping of a twig sounded like the crashing ruin of a forest giant.

At first they could not break it, but when they took it twig by twig they broke it easily.

Close on our right a twig snapped and I began to gather myself for the spring.

From a tree which bears fruit they cut a twig, and divide it into two small pieces.

Suddenly, we hear the sound of a twig cracking; all three men look around anxiously, particularly JASON.

It matters not much what part of the bough the twig growes out of.

Each picker then draws a twig, and his standing is decided by the number upon it.

Not a sound disturbed the oppressive quiet, not the quiver of a twig.

Was it his imagination, or did a branch snap, a twig rustle down the road?

Word Value for twig
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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