twitch
[twich]
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verb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
noun
Origin of twitch
1125–75; Middle English twicchen (v.); akin to Old English twiccian to pluck; cognate with German zwicken to pinch
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Query, whether he is by this means to be in the Cabinet with Twitcher?
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Very remarkably, both times the big leonine student, Mr. Jeffries, had been the twitcher.
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twitcher
noun
twitch
verb
noun
Word Origin for twitch
Old English twiccian to pluck; related to Old High German zwecchōn to pinch, Dutch twicken
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twitch
[twĭch]
v.
n.
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