a. [f. TWIG sb.1 + -Y.]
1. Like a twig; slender, as a shoot or branch; also, † made of twigs or wickerwork (obs.).
1562. Turner, Herbal, II. 40 b. Lithospermon … hath … diuerse twyggy braunches.
1597. Gerarde, Herbal, III. cxxix. 1330. These [trees] … do cast their branches and twiggie tendrels vnto the earth, where they likewise take hold and roote.
1664. Evelyn, Sylva, xix. 42. Oziers … yielding more limber, and flexible twigs for Baskets, Flaskets, Hampers, Chairs, Hurdles, Stages, Bands, &c. …; In fine, for all Wicker and Twiggy Works.
1743. J. Petiver, in Phil. Trans., XXVIII. 35. This seems to differ … in having more twiggy Branches.
1721. Bailey, Wanded Chair, a Wicker or Twiggy-Chair.
1800. Misc. Tr., in Asiat. Ann. Reg., 267/2. A slender twiggy climbing plant on the mountains.
1896. G. Allen, in Longm. Mag., Nov., 45. The netted willow … sends up twiggy shoots from a prostrate stem.
2. Full of or abounding in twigs; bushy, shrubby.
1600. Surflet, Countrie Farme, VII. xxiv. 844. A hart passing through a thick and twiggie woode.
1728. Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Root, Sarmentous, i.e. twiggy, or branching.
1881. Encycl. Brit., XII. 274/2. For the slender twiggy sorts [of pear-trees] the fan form is to be preferred.
1882. Garden, 14 Jan., 19/3. Masses of twiggy growth at the bottom.
