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twengan

  • verb [ weak ]
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Grammar
twengan, p. de
To pinch, squeeze, twinge
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  • Gyf ðé gedrýptes wínes lyste, ðonne dó ðú mid ðínum swýþran scytefingre on ðíne wynstran hand, swylce ðú tæppian wille, and wænd ðínne scytefinger ádúne and twængc hine mid ðínum twám fingrum, swylce ðú of sumne dropan strícan wylle,

      Techm. ii. 125, 19.

  • Cyrsena tác[n] is ðæt ðú sette ðínne winstran þúman on ðínes lytlan fingres lið and twenge hine siððan mid ðara swíþran hande,

      124, 23.

  • Twenge ðú mid ðínre swíðran neoþe*-*wearde þíne wynstran,

      125, 1.
Etymology
[Þu havest clivres swiþe stronge, þu twengest þar mid so doþ a tonge, O. and N. 156. An holȝ stoc hwar þu þe miht hude þat me ne twenge þine hude, 1114. He twengde and schok hire bi þe nose, P. L. S. ix. 81. O. H. Ger. zwengen remordere, praestringere.]
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v.  twingan.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “twengan.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/31205.

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