Twinge /(twĭnj)/

imp. & p. p. Twinged; p. pr. & vb. n. Twinging

1. To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.

   When a man is past his sense, There's no way to reduce him thence, But twinging him by the ears or nose, Or laying on of heavy blows.

2. To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.

   The gnat . . . twinged him [the lion] till he made him tear himself, and so mastered him.

1. To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain; as, the side twinges.

1. A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.

   A master that gives you . . . twinges by the ears.

2. A sudden sharp pain; a darting local pain of momentary continuance; as, a twinge in the arm or side.