1. To understand the meaning of; to comprehend; as, do you twig me?
[Colloq.] Marryat.
2. To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover. "Now twig him; now
mind him." Foote.
As if he were looking right into your eyes and twigged something there
which you had half a mind to conceal.
Hawthorne.
Twig, n. [AS. twig; akin to D. twijg, OHG. zwig, zwi, G. zweig, and
probably to E. two.] A small shoot or branch of a tree or other plant,
of no definite length or size.
The Britons had boats made of willow twigs, covered on the outside with
hides.
Sir T. Raleigh.
Twig borer (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small beetles which
bore into twigs of shrubs and trees, as the apple-tree twig borer
(Amphicerus bicaudatus). — Twig girdler. (Zoöl.) See Girdler, 3. — Twig
rush (Bot.), any rushlike plant of the genus Cladium having hard, and
sometimes prickly-edged, leaves or stalks. See Saw grass, under Saw.
Twig, v. t. To beat with twigs.