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twitchy

[ twich-ee ]

adjective

, twitch·i·er, twitch·i·est.
  1. twitching or tending to twitch.
  2. nervous; jumpy:

    All that pressure at the office has made him twitchy.



twitchy

/ ˈtwɪtʃɪ /

adjective

  1. nervous, worried, and ill-at-ease

    he was twitchy with anticipation



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Other Words From

  • twitchi·ness noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of twitchy1

First recorded in 1740–50; twitch + -y 1

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Example Sentences

At those moments in the race, I was happy I wasn’t on a cyclocross bike or some gravel bike with twitchy road geometry.

Small actions like that friction don’t require picking good idea or bad ideas, they just make the platform less twitchy, less reactive.

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First comes quiet sleep, and then a shift to a twitchy, active sleep in which vibrant colors flash across the animals’ skin.

When they’re talking about how twitchy my dancing was, or whatever like that.

“James Woods refuses to toe the Hollyweird line,” Twitchy managing editor Lori Ziganto told The Daily Beast in an email.

Conservatives were quick to jump on the charges: websites like Twitchy and FrontPage Mag soon joined the anti-Tyson charge.

We had this mortar thing [over my shoulder], which was supposed to explode when I moved, and Pete said I was a little twitchy.

Eric Cantor: too twitchy (manly men do not visibly vibrate with nervous energy).

But accuse him of not respecting voters enough to level with them, and he may get nervous and twitchy like he does sometimes.

It was a scraggy sorrel with twitchy ears and wicked eyes, but it looked tough as a mountain buck.

Her most positive experience was the revelation of Mrs. Flickerbaugh, the tall, thin, twitchy wife of the attorney.

Maybe he felt something then, a twitchy twinge of grief, but he swallowed hard and it went away.

The Probationer, rather twitchy from excitement and anxiety, felt her heart stop and race on again.

"Same place you dig up those twitchy CV types you have spooking up your outer office," I snapped.

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