TWIGGED

[nq:1]Where does "Twigged" - meaning "I realized", "I understood,suddenly" - come from? How many people here use it? Is it British, or is it used in theUS? How about Australia or Canada?[/nq]
I use it; it's common Br and Aus. I don't know about left-pond.

It may come from an English dialect word "twick", meaning "pinch", and hence things like "catch", and it's been in use for a couple

[nq:1]Where does "Twigged" - meaning "I realized", "I understood, suddenly" - come from?[/nq]
I've never heard it used in the U.S.

Mike Nitabach

[nq:1]Where does "Twigged" - meaning "I realized", "I understood, suddenly" - come from? How many people here use it? Is it British, or is it used in the US? How about Australia or Canada?[/nq]
We use it in this country.
It's probably been superseded by "grok".

Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa

[nq:2]Where does "Twigged" - meaning "I realized", "I understood, suddenly" ... it used in the US? How about Australia or Canada?[/nq]
I know it, but I don't know what country's usage I picked it up from.
[nq:1]We use it in this country (South Africa). It's probably been superseded by "grok".[/nq]
In my usage the meanings are too different for one to be substituted for the other. "I ha

Where does "Twigged" - meaning "I realized",
"I understood, suddenly" - come from?
How many people here use it? Is it British, or is it used in the US? How about Australia or Canada?
Not used around here. We just watch the British use it. As I recall, we discussed it some months back and someone mentioned a Gaelic (?) word that sounds the same and means the same.

Richard Maure

[nq:1]Where does "Twigged" - meaning "I realized", "I understood, suddenly" - come from? How many people here use it? Is it British, or is it used in the US? How about Australia or Canada? Thank you.[/nq]
Commonly used in Australia.

[nq:1]Where does "Twigged" - meaning "I realized", "I understood, suddenly" - come from? How many people here use it? Is ... discussed it some months back and someone mentioned a Gaelic (?) word that sounds the same and means the same.[/nq]
Hmm. The OED has it going back to 1764, but, under etymology, states "Origin unascertained".

Charles Riggs
They are no accented letters in my

[nq:2]Where does "Twigged" - meaning "I realized", "I understood, suddenly" ... (?) word that sounds the same and means the same.[/nq]
[nq:1]Hmm. The OED has it going back to 1764, but, under etymology, states "Origin unascertained".[/nq]
I've understood all my life that it was a metaphor for 'broken twig', i.e, sensing a pursuer or predator from an aural cue; it appears to be used quite o

[nq:2]Where does "Twigged" - meaning "I realized", "I understood, suddenly" - come from?[/nq]
[nq:1]I've never heard it used in the U.S.[/nq]
I've seen it in novels by US writers. I assumed from the context that it was underworld slang.

Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://oakroadsyst

[nq:2]Where does "Twigged" - meaning "I realized", "I understood, suddenly" ... it used in the US? How about Australia or Canada?[/nq]
[nq:1]We use it in this country. It's probably been superseded by "grok".[/nq]
Is this wholly coincidence, or do you think of
Robert Heinlein's "grok" because you learned "twig" from him, too? IIRC, the latter was a favorite word of Lazarus Long. Or may