"Twitch" is a word in ENGLISH
A stick with a hole in one end through which passes a loop,
which can be drawn tightly over the upper lip or an ear of a horse. By
twisting the stick the compression is made sufficiently painful to keep
the animal quiet during a slight surgical operation.
To pull with a sudden jerk; to pluck with a short, quick
motion; to snatch; as, to twitch one by the sleeve; to twitch a thing
out of another's hand; to twitch off clusters of grapes.
A short, spastic contraction of the fibers or muscles; a
simple muscular contraction; as, convulsive twitches; a twitch in the
side.
The act of twitching; a pull with a jerk; a short, sudden,
quick pull; as, a twitch by the sleeve.
The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a fat Negro woman whom I could see through the service window in the kitchen, and a pretty, redheaded waitress in her early twenties, dressed in a pink uniform with her hair tied up on her freckled neck. She was obviously tired, but she was polite and smiled at me when she took my order, and I felt a sense of guilt, almost shame, at my susceptibility and easy fondness for a young woman's smile. Because if you're forty-nine and unmarried or a widower or if you've simply chosen to live alone, you're easily flattered by a young woman's seeming attention to you, and you forget that it is often simply a deference to your age.
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A short, sudden pull, thrust, push, twitch, jolt, shake, or similar motion.
Read the complete definitionTo make a motion of pulling or twitching; -- usually with at; as, to pluck at one's gown.
Read the complete definitionThe act of plucking; a pull; a twitch.
Read the complete definitionEspecially, to pull with sudden force or effort, or to pull off or out from something, with a twitch; to …
Read the complete definitionA sudden, violent check of a horse by drawing or twitching the reins on a sudden and with one pull.
Read the complete definitiontámhil - To pull a sour face, to twitch or contract the muscles of the face when about to cry, …
Read the complete definitionTo pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch; as, to tweak the nose.
Read the complete definitionTo twitch; to pull; to tweak.
Read the complete definitionTo pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.
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