The word "twig" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a small, thin branch that has grown from a tree or bush. Example: The little bird perched on the twig, pecking away at a juicy insect.
Antonio Valencia tries not to think about that night any more, the indescribable pain, the fear that flashed through his mind when he looked down at his leg and realised it had been snapped like a dried twig, his foot hanging back to front.
A brief walk revealed three examples of illegal activity: a man nonchalantly pretending to whittle a twig with a panga, while five planks of newly-hewn timber rested on the tree beside him, a woman grazing 76 animals and an abandoned, newly hewn, log beehive.
How people react to someone once they twig they're wearing an automated camera is one of the more fascinating questions around this category of device.
(Mostly chips people brought him and coffee with five sugars. He was lean as a twig. But you know what? People in Calcutta would think he was a king to have so much pavement to live on).
Staring by turn at Sarju and at his guests, the man splits the twig down the middle and gives his tongue a good scrape with its green inner parts.
Some have just been slow to twig or have got caught up in other priorities, not least the Obamacare roll-out.
Rewards come from St Nicholas, while rigour (lumps of coal, smacks with a birch twig) is contributed by a fierce sidekick known by such names as Knecht Ruprecht or le Père Fouettard (Father Whip).
That did raise the question, though, of why one twig of the great dinosaur tree had developed such strange outer vestments, even before it developed wings.If a discovery announced in this week's Nature has been interpreted correctly, that question is about to get even stranger.
And, unlike those multiple, parallel surveys, the reviewers do not even get paid for their efforts.Some publishers are at last beginning to twig that this is an awful waste of resources.
Darwin's theory of evolution has proved that, rather than being made in the image of some divine benefactor, humans are just another twig on the tree of life.In this section I witness Clever cogs Sins of commissions Soap, sparkle and pop A 21st-century "Seagull" There and back again ReprintsThose keen to preserve the idea that humans are special can still point to intelligence.
One of the most difficult aspects is to persuade the trunk to grow to a sufficient thickness: too slender and it looks like a twig poked into the ground.Most bonsai trees are more or less triangular in shape, but anything too symmetrical is considered naff.
