Twitch

Noun

 * 1) A brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again; a spasm.
 * 2)  Action of a twitcher or compulsive bird watcher.

Verb

 * 1)  To perform a twitch; spasm.
 * "Why is it that you twitch whenever I say Faith?" &mdash;
 * 1) * 1922,, 
 * Their feet padded softly on the ground, and they crept quite close to him, twitching their noses...
 * 1)  To jerk sharply and briefly.
 * 2)  To spot or seek out a bird, especially a rare one.
 * 3) * 1995, Quarterly Review of Biology vol. 70 p. 348:
 * "The Birdwatchers Handbook ... will be a clear asset to those who 'twitch' in Europe."
 * 1) * 2003, Mark Cocker, Birders: Tales of a Tribe, ISBN 0802139965, page 52:
 * "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."
 * 1) * 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch: One Man, One Continent, a Race Against Time, ISBN 1741145287, page 119:
 * "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. "

Adverbs for Twitch
convulsively; weakly; spasmodically; abnormally; morbidly; pathologically; agitatedly; agonizingly.

Thesaurus
ache, acute pain, agonize, ail, anguish, bite, blanch, blench, bob, bobble, boring pain, bounce, breath, bump, charley horse, clutch, coup, crack, cramp, cramps, crick, darting pain, didder, dither, falter, feel pain, feel the pangs, fidget, flash, flick, flip, flip out, flirt, flounce, flutter, freak out on, fulgurant pain, get high on, girdle pain, glow, gnawing, go pitapat, grasp, grimace, griping, half a jiffy, half a mo, half a second, half a shake, have a misery, have the fidgets, have the shakes, heave, hitch, hurt, instant, itch, jar, jerk, jiff, jiffy, jig, jigger, jigget, jiggle, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, jumping pain, kink, lancinating pain, lug, lurch, microsecond, millisecond, minute, moment, nip, palpitate, pang, pant, paroxysm, pinch, pluck, pound, prick, quake, quaver, quiver, rictus, sec, second, seizure, shake, sharp pain, shiver, shock, shoot, shooting, shooting pain, shrink, shudder, smart, snake, snap, snatch, spasm, split second, squirm, stab, stabbing pain, start, stitch, stroke, sudden pull, suffer, swell, swell with emotion, thrill, thrill to, throb, throes, tic, tick, tingle, tingle with excitement, tormen, toss, toss and turn, tremble, tremor, trice, tumble, turn on to, tweak, twinge, twink, twinkle, twinkling, twist and turn, twitter, two shakes, vellicate, wiggle, wince, wink, wobble, wrench, wriggle, writhe, yank, yerk

Noun

 * Finnish:, , , , sätky
 * French: tic
 * Italian: ,


 * Serbo-Croatian: tik, trzaj
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish:

Verb

 * Finnish:, hätkähtää


 * Italian:


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 * Finnish:


 * Serbo-Croatian: trzati


 * Dutch: vogelen


 * Finnish:

Derived terms

 * atwitch