To affect with a sharp sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains. The gnat twinged the lion till he made him tear himself, and so he mastered him.

To pinch; to tweak; to pull with a jerk; as, to twinge one by the ears and nose.

twinj. to have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen spasmodic or shooting pain; as, the side twinges.

A sudden sharp pain; a darting local pain of momentary continuance; as a twinge in the arm or side.

A sharp rebuke of conscience.

A pinch; a tweak; as a twinge of the ear.