See twitch on Wiktionary
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"word": "fast-twitch"
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"word": "nervous twitch"
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"word": "sleep twitch"
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"word": "twitch game"
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"word": "twitch grass"
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"5": "to nail, pin, fasten, clasp, pinch"
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"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *twikkijan (“to nail, pin, fasten, clasp, pinch”)",
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"4": "to pinch, pinch off"
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"form": "twitches",
"tags": [
"plural"
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"text": "I saw a little twitch in the man's face, and knew he was lying.",
"type": "example"
}
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"A brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again; a spasm."
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"roman": "tik",
"sense": "brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again",
"tags": [
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"word": "тик"
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"roman": "konvulsija",
"sense": "brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "конвулсия"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 2 2 12 1 3",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "chōuchù",
"sense": "brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again",
"word": "抽搐"
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"sense": "brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tik"
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"sense": "brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "cukání"
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"_dis1": "80 2 2 12 1 3",
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again",
"word": "nykäisy"
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"_dis1": "80 2 2 12 1 3",
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again",
"word": "nykäys"
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"sense": "brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again",
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"_dis1": "80 2 2 12 1 3",
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again",
"word": "säpsähdys"
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"_dis1": "80 2 2 12 1 3",
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again",
"word": "sätky"
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"_dis1": "80 2 2 12 1 3",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tic"
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"_dis1": "80 2 2 12 1 3",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "tic"
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"_dis1": "80 2 2 12 1 3",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Zuckung"
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"_dis1": "80 2 2 12 1 3",
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"sense": "brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "Zucken"
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"_dis1": "80 2 2 12 1 3",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tic"
},
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"_dis1": "80 2 2 12 1 3",
"code": "it",
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"sense": "brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "spasimo"
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"_dis1": "80 2 2 12 1 3",
"alt": "ひきつり",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "hikitsuri",
"sense": "brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again",
"word": "引き攣り"
},
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"_dis1": "80 2 2 12 1 3",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again",
"word": "tākiri"
},
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again",
"word": "tamaki"
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"_dis1": "80 2 2 12 1 3",
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"sense": "brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again",
"word": "hōkai"
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "drgawka"
},
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"_dis1": "80 2 2 12 1 3",
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "skurcz"
},
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"_dis1": "80 2 2 12 1 3",
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"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tique"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 2 2 12 1 3",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "espasmo"
},
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"_dis1": "80 2 2 12 1 3",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podjórgivanije",
"sense": "brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "подёргивание"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 2 2 12 1 3",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "súdoroga",
"sense": "brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "су́дорога"
},
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"_dis1": "80 2 2 12 1 3",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "tik",
"sense": "brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "тик"
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"_dis1": "80 2 2 12 1 3",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "тик"
},
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"_dis1": "80 2 2 12 1 3",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "трзај"
},
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"_dis1": "80 2 2 12 1 3",
"code": "sh",
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"sense": "brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again",
"tags": [
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"masculine"
],
"word": "tik"
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"sense": "brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again",
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"_dis1": "80 2 2 12 1 3",
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"sense": "brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again",
"word": "šklbnutie"
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"sense": "brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again",
"word": "myknutie"
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"sense": "brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again",
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"_dis1": "80 2 2 12 1 3",
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"sense": "brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tic"
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"sense": "brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again",
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"common-gender"
],
"word": "ryckning"
}
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"Action of spotting or seeking out a bird, especially a rare one."
],
"id": "en-twitch-en-noun-1YNyT7Da",
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal) Action of spotting or seeking out a bird, especially a rare one."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"informal",
"uncountable"
],
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "action of bird spotting",
"word": "bongaus"
}
]
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"kind": "lifeform",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Farriery",
"orig": "en:Farriery",
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"Blacksmithing",
"Horses",
"Metalworking",
"Equids",
"Livestock",
"Crafts",
"Metallurgy",
"Odd-toed ungulates",
"Agriculture",
"Animals",
"Society",
"Metals",
"Technology",
"Mammals",
"Applied sciences",
"Lifeforms",
"All topics",
"Matter",
"Vertebrates",
"Sciences",
"Life",
"Fundamental",
"Chemistry",
"Nature",
"Chordates"
],
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"ref": "1861, John Henry Walsh, The Horse in the Stable and in the Field:",
"text": "THE TWITCH is a short stick of strong ash, about the size of a mopstick, with a hole pierced near the end, through which is passed a piece of strong but small cord, and tied in a loop large enough to admit the open hand freely.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"A stick with a hole in one end through which passes a loop, which can be drawn tightly over the upper lip or an ear of a horse and twisted to keep the animal quiet during minor surgery."
],
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"farriery",
"farriery"
],
[
"stick",
"stick"
],
[
"hole",
"hole"
],
[
"loop",
"loop"
],
[
"lip",
"lip"
],
[
"ear",
"ear"
],
[
"horse",
"horse"
],
[
"twist",
"twist"
],
[
"surgery",
"surgery"
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"(farriery) A stick with a hole in one end through which passes a loop, which can be drawn tightly over the upper lip or an ear of a horse and twisted to keep the animal quiet during minor surgery."
],
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{
"word": "barnacle"
}
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"farriery",
"hobbies",
"horses",
"lifestyle",
"pets",
"sports"
],
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"code": "ar",
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"roman": "ziyār",
"sense": "(farriery)",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "زِيَار"
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{
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "(farriery)",
"word": "bremse"
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"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "(farriery)",
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"word": "brems"
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"sense": "(farriery)",
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"word": "praam"
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"sense": "(farriery)",
"word": "huulipuristin"
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"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "tord-nez"
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"plural"
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"sense": "(farriery)",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
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"sense": "(farriery)",
"tags": [
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"word": "Klappe"
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"roman": "prostomís",
"sense": "(farriery)",
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"feminine"
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"feminine"
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"word": "ἐπιστομίς"
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"sense": "(farriery)",
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"feminine"
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"word": "imboccatura"
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"sense": "(farriery)",
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"code": "fi",
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{
"code": "fi",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
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"tags": [
"feminine"
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"code": "de",
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"tags": [
"neuter"
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"code": "it",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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"code": "it",
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"masculine"
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"sense": "brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again",
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"feminine"
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"masculine"
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
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"masculine"
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"code": "sh",
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{
"code": "sh",
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{
"code": "sk",
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"code": "sk",
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"code": "fi",
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{
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{
"code": "fi",
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{
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "(farriery)",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "(farriery)",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "gl",
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"tags": [
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{
"code": "de",
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"feminine"
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{
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"code": "it",
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"code": "gml",
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"code": "pl",
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],
"glosses": [
"To jerk sharply and briefly."
],
"links": [
[
"jerk",
"jerk"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To jerk sharply and briefly."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"glosses": [
"To exert oneself."
],
"links": [
[
"exert",
"exert"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) To exert oneself."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1995, Quarterly Review of Biology, volume 70, page 348:",
"text": "\"The Birdwatchers Handbook ... will be a clear asset to those who 'twitch' in Europe.\"",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2003, Mark Cocker, Birders: Tales of a Tribe, →ISBN, page 52:",
"text": "\"But the key revelation from twitching that wonderful Iceland Gull on 10 March 1974 wasn't its eroticism. It was the sheer innocence of it.\"",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch: One Man, One Continent, a Race Against Time, →ISBN, page 119:",
"text": "\"I hadn't seen John since I went to Adelaide to (unsuccessfully) twitch the '87 Northern Shoveler, when I was a skinny, eighteen-year-old kid. \"",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To spot or seek out a bird, especially a rare one."
],
"links": [
[
"spot",
"spot"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To spot or seek out a bird, especially a rare one."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/twɪt͡ʃ/"
},
{
"ipa": "[tʰw̥ɪt͡ʃ]"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-twitch.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-twitch.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-twitch.wav.mp3",
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪtʃ"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to perform a twitch; spasm",
"word": "səyirmək"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "chōuchù",
"sense": "to perform a twitch; spasm",
"word": "抽搐"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to perform a twitch; spasm",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "cuknout"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to perform a twitch; spasm",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "cukat"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to perform a twitch; spasm",
"word": "nytkähtää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to perform a twitch; spasm",
"word": "hätkähtää"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to perform a twitch; spasm",
"word": "spasmer"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to perform a twitch; spasm",
"word": "secouer"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to perform a twitch; spasm",
"word": "tressauter"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to perform a twitch; spasm",
"word": "zucken"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to perform a twitch; spasm",
"word": "spasimare"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to perform a twitch; spasm",
"word": "tremulo"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to perform a twitch; spasm",
"word": "kōwhiti"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to perform a twitch; spasm",
"word": "waitākiri"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to perform a twitch; spasm",
"word": "arawhiti"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to perform a twitch; spasm",
"word": "tākiri"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"english": "whilst asleep",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to perform a twitch; spasm",
"word": "kowhera"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to perform a twitch; spasm",
"word": "io"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to perform a twitch; spasm",
"word": "hui"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to perform a twitch; spasm",
"word": "korowhiti"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "djórgatʹsja",
"sense": "to perform a twitch; spasm",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "дёргаться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "djórnutʹsja",
"sense": "to perform a twitch; spasm",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "дёрнуться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podjórgivatʹsja",
"sense": "to perform a twitch; spasm",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "подёргиваться"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to perform a twitch; spasm",
"word": "myknúť sa"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to perform a twitch; spasm",
"word": "mykať sa"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to jerk sharply and briefly",
"word": "rukken"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to jerk sharply and briefly",
"word": "nykäistä"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to jerk sharply and briefly",
"word": "zupfen an"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to jerk sharply and briefly",
"word": "reißen an"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to jerk sharply and briefly",
"word": "strattonare"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to jerk sharply and briefly",
"word": "tupana"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "djórgatʹ",
"sense": "to jerk sharply and briefly",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "дёргать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "djórnutʹ",
"sense": "to jerk sharply and briefly",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "дёрнуть"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to jerk sharply and briefly",
"word": "trzati"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to jerk sharply and briefly",
"word": "potiahnuť"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to jerk sharply and briefly",
"word": "myknúť"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to jerk sharply and briefly",
"word": "mykať"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to jerk sharply and briefly",
"word": "šklbnúť"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to jerk sharply and briefly",
"word": "šklbať"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to spot a bird",
"word": "vogelen"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to spot a bird",
"word": "vogelspotten"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to spot a bird",
"word": "twitchen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to spot a bird",
"word": "bongata"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to spot a bird",
"word": "individuare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to spot a bird",
"word": "identificare"
}
],
"word": "twitch"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English ergative verbs",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/ɪtʃ",
"Rhymes:English/ɪtʃ/1 syllable",
"en:Birdwatching",
"en:Hordeeae tribe grasses"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_text": "alternate of quitch",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "twitch (uncountable)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"couch grass (Elymus repens; a species of grass, often considered as a weed)"
],
"links": [
[
"couch grass",
"couch grass#English"
],
[
"Elymus repens",
"Elymus repens#Translingual"
],
[
"grass",
"grass#English"
],
[
"weed",
"weed#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/twɪt͡ʃ/"
},
{
"ipa": "[tʰw̥ɪt͡ʃ]"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-twitch.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-twitch.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-twitch.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-twitch.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-twitch.wav.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪtʃ"
}
],
"word": "twitch"
}
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