Twinge
Twinge (twinj) , transitive verb
[Old English twengen, Anglo-Saxon twengan; akin to Old English twingen to pain, afflict, OFries. thwinga, twinga, dwinga, to constrain, Dutch dwingen, Old Saxon thwingan, German zwingen, Old High German dwingan, thwingan, to press, oppress, overcome, Icelandic þvinga, Swedish tvinga to subdue, constrain, Danish tvinge, and Anglo-Saxon þun to press, Old High German dūhen, and probably to English thong. Perhaps influenced by twitch. Compare 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.
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.
Twinge , intransitive verb
To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain; as, the side twinges.
Twinge , noun
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.
A twinge for my own sin.