twinge
noun
a sudden, sharp pain.
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
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Roger almost forgot the homesickness that had twinged him once or twice during the day.
From The White Crystals Being an Account of the Adventures of Two Boys by Howard Roger Garis