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Tweak   Listen
noun
Tweak  n.  
1.
A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch; as, a tweak of the nose.
2.
Trouble; distress; tweag. (Obs.)
3.
A prostitute. (Obs.)





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"Tweak" Quotes from Famous Books



... looked him up and down, looked at his ears, his eyes. He felt that in another second her little fingers would slip up and tweak the first, or close the second ...
— The Best British Short Stories of 1922 • Various
... pity we could not find all 'sins' as salutary. I may be a retired old clergyman, with no greater responsibilities upon my shoulders than keeping one unruly little girl within bounds," he added, giving a tweak to Peggy's curls, "and looking after her father's estate— I tutored HIM when he was a lad—but I hear echoes of the doings of the outer world now and again. Yes—yes, now and again, and when they ...
— Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home • Gabrielle E. Jackson
... repeated, going out into the sunshine that smote her with the sting of hot lances. The tweak from his hand lay back somewhere, branded none too ...
— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst


Words linked to "Tweak" :   draw away, pull off, tweeze, tune up, squeeze, force, draw off, twitch, pick off, pluck, twinge, nip, fine-tune, tune, tweet, pinch


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