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Word entry · 4 letters

twig

Best crossword clue

"Thin branch"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /twɪɡ/Part of speech verb, nounSorted gitwStarts with TEnds with G1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. branch out in a twiglike manner

Word origin

From Middle English twig, twyg, twigge, twygge, from Old English twigg, twicg, from Proto-West Germanic *twiggu (“small twig, shoot”), apparently a diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *twig (“branch, twig”) (whence also Old English twiġ and twiġa), from Proto-Germanic *twīgą, from Proto-Indo-European *dweygʰom, from *dwóh₁. More at two.

Used in a sentence

  • They used twigs and leaves as a base to start the fire.
  • A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.
  • You need to find a source of motivation and play off of that. Whether it be the jock in high school that always called you fat, or the guy who picked on you and called you a twig.

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