Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Twinging"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Twinge \Twinge\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Twinged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Twinging}.] [OE. twengen, AS. twengan; akin to OE. twingen
to pain, afflict, OFries. thwinga, twinga, dwinga, to
constrain, D. dwingen, OS. thwingan, G. zwingen, OHG.
dwingan, thwingan, to press, oppress, overcome, Icel.
[thorn]vinga, Sw. tvinga to subdue, constrain, Dan. twinge,
and AS. [thorn]["u]n to press, OHG. d[=u]hen, and probably to
E. thong. Perhaps influenced by twitch. Cf. {Thong}.]
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. --Hudibras.
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. --L'Estrange.
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