twitch

Etymology 1
From, from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and  (> German ).

Noun

 * 1) A brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again; a spasm.
 * 2)  Action of spotting or seeking out a bird, especially a rare one.
 * 3)  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.
 * 4)  A brief, contractile response of a skeletal muscle elicited by a single maximal volley of impulses in the neurons supplying it.
 * 5)  The sudden narrowing almost to nothing of a vein of ore.
 * 6)  A trip taken in order to observe a rare bird.
 * 1)  A brief, contractile response of a skeletal muscle elicited by a single maximal volley of impulses in the neurons supplying it.
 * 2)  The sudden narrowing almost to nothing of a vein of ore.
 * 3)  A trip taken in order to observe a rare bird.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: тик,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, cukání
 * Finnish:, , , ,
 * French:
 * Galician: tic
 * German: Zuckung,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 引き攣り
 * Maori: tākiri, tamaki, hōkai
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: тик, трзај
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: šklbnutie, myknutie, trhnutie
 * Spanish: tic
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish:


 * Arabic: زِيَار
 * Danish:, brems
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: huulipuristin
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * German: Nasenbremse,, , , Knuppe, Maulholz
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: προστομίς, ἐπιστομίς
 * Italian:
 * Latin: postomis, -idis, prostomis, -idis, epistomis, -idis, epistomium, repāgulum, pāgula, cōnfībula
 * Leonese: aceal
 * Lithuanian: premsai
 * Middle Dutch: kleppe, klippe
 * Middle Low German: kleppe, klippe, premese, premtze, premisse, mūlholt
 * Mongolian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: aziar
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Walloon:
 * Yiddish: ברעמע


 * Bulgarian:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Maori: rare

Verb

 * 1)  To perform a twitch; spasm.
 * 2)  To cause to twitch; spasm.
 * 3)  To jerk sharply and briefly.
 * 4)  To exert oneself.
 * 5)  To spot or seek out a bird, especially a rare one.
 * 1)  To exert oneself.
 * 2)  To spot or seek out a bird, especially a rare one.
 * 1)  To exert oneself.
 * 2)  To spot or seek out a bird, especially a rare one.

Usage notes

 * When used of birdwatchers by outsiders, this term frequently carries a negative connotation.

Translations

 * Azerbaijani: səyirmək
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: cuknout,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, ,
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Latin: tremulo
 * Maori: kōwhiti, waitākiri, arawhiti, tākiri, kowhera, , hui, korowhiti
 * Russian:, ,
 * Slovak: myknúť sa, mykať sa


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German: zupfen an, reißen an
 * Italian:
 * Maori: tupana
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovak: potiahnuť, myknúť, mykať, šklbnúť, šklbať


 * Dutch:, , twitchen
 * Finnish:
 * Italian: ,

Etymology 2
alternate of

Noun

 * 1)  ; a species of grass, often considered as a weed