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twiggy

[ twig-ee ]

/ ˈtwɪg i /

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adjective, twig·gi·er, twig·gi·est.

of, relating to, or resembling twigs.

full of twigs.

Origin of twiggy

First recorded in 1555–65; twig¹ + -y¹

Words nearby twiggy

twiddle one's thumbs, twig, twig blight, twig borer, twig girdler, twiggy, twilight, twilight glow, twilight of the gods, twilight sleep, twilight state

Example sentences from the Web for twiggy

Befittingly, Entertainment Weekly has styled Dunham as 60s supermodel Twiggy for their 2012 Entertainers of the Year photo shoot.

Kate Upton Lands Second Vogue Cover; Lena Dunham Does Twiggy |The Fashion Beast Team |December 6, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Tree moderately vigorous, round-headed, twiggy; shoots reddish; foliage rather dark.

American Pomology |J. A. Warder
There are many woody little, much branched, twiggy shrublets, which bristle all over with thorns and spines.

The Romance of Plant Life |G. F. Scott Elliot
No, sir; only that some of the shoots are big and strong, and some are little and twiggy.

Brownsmith's Boy |George Manville Fenn

The leaves are neat, thickly-arranged, and hoary, while the whole plant is twiggy and of strict though by no means formal growth.

Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs |A. D. Webster
The great branches stand off nearly at right angles to the trunk, and are bushy and twiggy at the ends.

Cornell Nature-Study Leaflets |Various

British Dictionary definitions for twiggy

twiggy

/ (ˈtwɪɡɪ) /

adjective -gier or -giest

of or relating to a twig or twigs

covered with twigs

slender or fragile