[f. TWITCH v.1 + -Y.]

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  1.  Characterized by twitching; having a tendency to twitch; also, nervous, fidgety, irritable.

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1839.  Fraser’s Mag., XX. 671. Her lips were long, loose, and twitchy.

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1861.  Dickens, in All Year Round, IV. 457. Faces peculiarly swollen, and twitchy about the nose.

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1874.  A. J. C. Hare, Story of my Life (1900). IV. xvii. 245. An excellent person, but very nervous and twitchy.

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1898.  Talmage, Serm., in N. Y. Chr. Herald, 27 April, 368/3. Your nerves will become more twitchy and your dyspepsia more aggravated.

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  2.  Mining. Cf. TWITCH sb.1 4, v.1 5.

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1747.  Hooson, Miner’s Dict., R ij b. Many good Veins that … have been wrought to a vast Depth, yet it is found in the end to grow hard and Twitchey on the Soles.

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