Twig

Noun

 * 1) A small thin branch of a tree or bush.

Verb

 * 1)  To realise something; to 'catch on'.
 * He hasn't 'twigged' that we're planning a surprise party for him.

Adjectives for Twig
tired; overhanging;  unsightly;  fragile; hardwood; insignificant; bleak; upreared.

Thesaurus
accept, appendage, arm, bine, bough, branch, branchedness, branchiness, burgeon, catch, catch on, comprehend, craze, cry, deadwood, descry, dig, discern, distinguish, divine, espy, fad, fathom, flagellum, fork, frond, furore, get, grasp, hand, imp, joint, know, leg, limb, link, lobe, lobule, mark, member, mode, note, notice, observe, offshoot, organ, perceive, pinion, rage, ramage, ramification, rumble, runner, sapling, sarment, scion, see, seedling, sense, set, shoot, slip, spear, spray, sprig, sprit, sprout, spur, stem, stick, stolon, style, sucker, switch, tail, take, take in, tendril, thallus, tumble to, understand, vogue, wing

Etymology 1
twigge:, from (compare West Frisian twiich:,  twijg:,  Zweig:), from  (compare  dvigŭ: 'branch',  degë: 'id.'), from *dwó 'two'. More at two.

Etymology 2
From Irish and Scots Gaelic tuig, "to understand"

Noun

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: kvistur
 * Italian:
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 * Middle English: twygge
 * Norwegian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: bioran, geug , meanglan , ògan , òganach , slat , sprios
 * Spanish:, ramilla
 * Swedish:

Derived terms

 * off one's twig

Verb

 * French: ,
 * German: mitbekommen, checken
 * Japanese:


 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: tuig