I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
snap
▪
She snapped a dry twig from a juniper bush and used it to finish the tourniquet.
▪
Clean. Snap like a twig .
▪
If you do snap a twig then freeze and wait for several minutes before continuing.
▪
Aenarion's ribs snapped like twigs under the awesome stress.
▪
They snapped like burned-through twigs and I threw them away.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
And again in what directions do the branches and smaller twigs grow?
▪
Another is a close-up of a mud-encrusted hand reaching back toward a worker at the top of a precarious twig ladder.
▪
As in other bowerbirds, the male builds an elaborate bower of twigs and ferns and therein tries to seduce females.
▪
He found a not very effective twig and scraped.
▪
I saw a little glazed brown ring of tent caterpillar moth eggs on a chokecherry twig .
▪
Maybe in the bleak light of dawn Kathy arranged a pile of twigs on the beach.
▪
So I gradually amassed armfuls of small twigs, which I carried back to my cave.
▪
They simply spin a silken sling to attach themselves to a twig .
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪
At last I twigged that I was pregnant
▪
It took him about two minutes to twig what I was going on about!
▪
Oh, I get it, I've twigged at last. How much do you want?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
I never twigged what the gold rush was.
▪
It was amazing that Graham hadn't twigged before he married her.
▪
People don't twig she's ten.