twinge
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A scowl of torture would pass across his face, and then he would murmur, "Twinge."
From The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories by Bennett, Arnold
Twinge, twinj, v.t. to twitch or pinch: to affect with a sharp, sudden pain.—v.i. to have or suffer a sudden, sharp pain, like a twitch.—n. a twitch, a pinch: a sudden, sharp pain.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
It will be followed by a treatise on gout by Mrs. Sarah Gamp, M.D., to be entitled The Uneavenly Twinge.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 16th, 1893 by Various
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