OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 1324

twig

/twɪɡ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
ramilla • ramita • vara
A small thin branch of a tree or bush.
A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.
They used twigs and leaves as a base to start the fire.
quirina
Somebody, or one of their body parts, not looking developed.
Schwarzenegger was long past his professional bodybuilding days when he and Carrere shot the tango scene, but he wasn’t a twig.
You need to find a source of motivation and play off of that. Whether it be the jock in high school that always called you fat, or the guy who picked on you and called you a twig.
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