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say it: twinj
twinge is a verb and noun meaning "cause a stinging pain". It carries 5 recorded senses.
a sudden sharp feeling
“pangs of regret”
“she felt a stab of excitement”
“twinges of conscience”
a sharp stab of pain
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for twinge come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.