See Also: twig(medicine)
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twig 1, noun(dictionary)
twig 2, verb(dictionary)

agonize (oh) and twig(1) (iou)


agonize (oh)



to think about a difficult decision very carefully and with a lot of effort
agonize over/about
::All the way Home she agonized about what she should do.
-- agonizing n [U]

twig(1) (iou)



twig noun1.

A slender shoot growing from a branch or stem; a small branch or shoot of a tree or shrub; spec. (a) rare such shoots collectively as the material for basket-making; (b) = lime-twig (a) s.v. LIME noun1; (c) arch. in pl., the twigs forming a birch-rod. OE.
hop the twig: see HOP verb1.
Anthony Huxley A great mass of leaves is produced on slender, whippy twigs. A. Carter He showed me how to..weave osier twigs into baskets.
b. A stout stick. Also, a dowsing-rod. dial. M19.
Anatomy. A small branch of a blood-vessel or nerve. L16.
Comb.: twig-blight US blight affecting a plant's twigs; esp. a disease of apple and quince trees caused by the pear-blight bacterium Micrococcus amylovorus; twig-borer US any of various larval or adult insects which bore into the twigs of trees; twig-gall an abnormal enlargement of a twig, due to the action of insects, fungi, or bacteria; twig-girdler US an American beetle, Oncideres cingulata, which lays its eggs in the tips of twigs and then removes a ring of bark below the eggs; twig-pruner US an American longhorn beetle, Elaphidionoides villosus, whose larvae mine down the centre of hardwood twigs.
twiggage noun (rare) twigs collectively E20.
twiggen adjective (arch.) made of or with twigs M16.
twiggery noun twigs collectively E20.
twigginess noun the condition or quality of being twiggy E20.
twiggy adjective (a) resembling a twig; slender; (b) made of twigs; (c) full of or having many twigs; bushy, shrubby: M16.
twiglet noun (a) a little twig; (b) (Twiglet) (proprietary name for) a crisp savoury snack in the shape of a twig: M19.