Twitch
proper noun
- American live-streaming platform
- album by Ministry
- television series focused on video games
- playable character from the game League of Legends
- Aldo Nova album
verb
- (cause to) move spastically
noun
No English definition recorded for this entry.
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Pronunciation: /twɪt͡ʃ/ / [tʰw̥ɪt͡ʃ]
name
Etymology: Inspired by the term twitch gameplay.
- A live streaming service that focuses on video game live streaming.
“On the Amazon Live homepage, fans can also chat with the host and one another in a Twitch-like side panel next to the live video.”
noun
Etymology: alternate of quitch
- couch grass (Elymus repens; a species of grass, often considered as a weed)
verb
Etymology: From Middle English twicchen, from Old English *twiċċan, from Proto-West Germanic *twikkijan (“to nail, pin, fasten, clasp, pinch”). Cognate with English tweak, Low German twikken, German Low German twicken (“to pinch, pinch off”), zweckōn and gizwickan (> German zwicken (“to pinch”)).
- To perform a twitch; spasm.
“His fingers were nervously twitching.”
- To cause to twitch; spasm.
“Their feet padded softly on the ground, and they crept quite close to him, twitching their noses...”
- To jerk sharply and briefly.
“to twitch somebody's sleeve for attention”
“Thrice they twitched the diamond in her ear.”
- To exert oneself.
- To spot or seek out a bird, especially a rare one.
“Marsh Sandpiper [...] This delicate ‘mini shank’ has graced our shores for the past six successive years and has become increasingly easy to twitch.”
“"But the key revelation from twitching that wonderful Iceland Gull on 10 March 1974 wasn't its eroticism. It was the sheer innocence of it."”
- To engage in twitching.
“"The Birdwatchers Handbook ... will be a clear asset to those who 'twitch' in Europe."”