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Definition of twitchy in English: twitchyadjectivetwitchiest, twitchierˈtwɪtʃiˈtwɪtʃi 1informal Nervous; anxious. 〈非正式〉烦躁不安的;焦急的,紧张的 she felt twitchy about the man hovering in the background 她对在隐蔽处徘徊的那个男子感到紧张不安。 Example sentencesExamples - Once I got my name tag and checklist, I sat down at a table, all twitchy and nervous.
- Willie comes out of the kitchen door, nervous and twitchy.
- Jesse and Joe showed up nervous and twitchy and James' dad not too much later.
- He is no longer full of twitchy, nervous energy.
- He started getting all nervous and twitchy, so guilty because he felt he'd let his mother down.
- When guns and knives were used in more than 150 incidents in Bolton already this year, it's no wonder that police and other officials are twitchy about even children with toy guns.
- Terry is a sad, lonely, twitchy, uptight, neurotic, shy, and pathetic man.
- A man entered a church, clearly twitchy and nervous, and approached the priest.
- Ok, she needs to seriously quit saying rehab but I'm getting edgy and she's getting twitchy.
- He seemed twitchy, edgy, intense, humourless and more than a little competitive.
- It takes a while to shake that I've just been in a car accident feeling, and even thought it happened almost three hours ago I'm still a little twitchy.
- The worry is there to see in his twitchy movements, his reluctance to stand for a photograph outside his house, the front door locked while he is being interviewed, his regular glances out the front window.
- If he'd been at all nervous or twitchy or had anything suspicious about him, I would have picked it up right away.
- He seemed nervous and twitchy as he came up close to Cleo, and rested a hand on the toe of her boot.
- Card issuers are facing losses and plummeting stock prices from ballooning debt defaults, one of the big challenges facing South Korea's already twitchy financial markets.
- He was twitchy, sweaty, running a finger inside the neck of his shirt; he looked - in London parlance - like a well-dodgy geezer.
- My twitchy, fidgety mind was already having trouble settling on any single subject for more than thirty seconds.
- With the focus on sweaty, aggressive male energy, we are in Sam Shepard land, and the twitchy dialogue is reminiscent of David Mamet, with similar themes of truth, memory and guilt.
- I feel twitchy and nervous and on the edge of relapse.
- Louise, a normally vibrant 69-year-old woman, returned from vacation feeling run down, nervous, and twitchy.
Synonyms anxious, worried, apprehensive, on edge, edgy, tense, strained, stressed, agitated, in a state of nerves, in a state of agitation, uneasy, restless, worked up, keyed up, overwrought, wrought up, strung out, jumpy, on tenterhooks, with one's stomach in knots, fidgety, fearful, frightened, scared, with one's heart in one's mouth, like a cat on a hot tin roof, quaking, trembling, shaking, shaking in one's shoes, shaky, on pins and needles, in a cold sweat, fevered, febrile 2Given to twitching. 抽动的 a mouse with a twitchy nose 鼻子不停地抽动的老鼠。 Example sentencesExamples - And off she would go; and come back, grey eyes blank, wide mouth twitchy, ill-tempered from the drugs, at 10 the next morning.
- Lying on one side had made her back stiff, and her legs a little twitchy… She felt drawn so tight, so tense, that she would snap.
- I watched her close her eyes and they seemed to tremble, the muscles of an eighty-year-old involuntarily twitchy.
- The gift also had a pink nose, pointy twitchy ears, and four paws.
- The rat was scuttling around sniffing things with its twitchy nose.
- His eyes were kind of small and beady like a rat's and he had a twitchy little nose.
- On the other hand, some suggest that it requires neither courage nor skill to outwit a bouncy, four-legged, floppy-eared thing with a twitchy pink nose.
- Last night I dreamt I had a hamster, it was very small, and kind of caramel coloured and white, with a little twitchy nose and fluffy fur.
Rhymesbitchy, itchy, kitschy, pitchy, Richie, titchy Definition of twitchy in US English: twitchyadjectiveˈtwiCHēˈtwɪtʃi informal 1Nervous; anxious. 〈非正式〉烦躁不安的;焦急的,紧张的 she felt twitchy about the man hovering in the background 她对在隐蔽处徘徊的那个男子感到紧张不安。 Example sentencesExamples - He is no longer full of twitchy, nervous energy.
- I feel twitchy and nervous and on the edge of relapse.
- With the focus on sweaty, aggressive male energy, we are in Sam Shepard land, and the twitchy dialogue is reminiscent of David Mamet, with similar themes of truth, memory and guilt.
- When guns and knives were used in more than 150 incidents in Bolton already this year, it's no wonder that police and other officials are twitchy about even children with toy guns.
- He started getting all nervous and twitchy, so guilty because he felt he'd let his mother down.
- He seemed twitchy, edgy, intense, humourless and more than a little competitive.
- He seemed nervous and twitchy as he came up close to Cleo, and rested a hand on the toe of her boot.
- Ok, she needs to seriously quit saying rehab but I'm getting edgy and she's getting twitchy.
- The worry is there to see in his twitchy movements, his reluctance to stand for a photograph outside his house, the front door locked while he is being interviewed, his regular glances out the front window.
- Jesse and Joe showed up nervous and twitchy and James' dad not too much later.
- Terry is a sad, lonely, twitchy, uptight, neurotic, shy, and pathetic man.
- Louise, a normally vibrant 69-year-old woman, returned from vacation feeling run down, nervous, and twitchy.
- It takes a while to shake that I've just been in a car accident feeling, and even thought it happened almost three hours ago I'm still a little twitchy.
- Willie comes out of the kitchen door, nervous and twitchy.
- If he'd been at all nervous or twitchy or had anything suspicious about him, I would have picked it up right away.
- Once I got my name tag and checklist, I sat down at a table, all twitchy and nervous.
- He was twitchy, sweaty, running a finger inside the neck of his shirt; he looked - in London parlance - like a well-dodgy geezer.
- A man entered a church, clearly twitchy and nervous, and approached the priest.
- Card issuers are facing losses and plummeting stock prices from ballooning debt defaults, one of the big challenges facing South Korea's already twitchy financial markets.
- My twitchy, fidgety mind was already having trouble settling on any single subject for more than thirty seconds.
Synonyms anxious, worried, apprehensive, on edge, edgy, tense, strained, stressed, agitated, in a state of nerves, in a state of agitation, uneasy, restless, worked up, keyed up, overwrought, wrought up, strung out, jumpy, on tenterhooks, with one's stomach in knots, fidgety, fearful, frightened, scared, with one's heart in one's mouth, like a cat on a hot tin roof, quaking, trembling, shaking, shaking in one's shoes, shaky, on pins and needles, in a cold sweat, fevered, febrile - 1.1 Given to twitching.
抽动的 a mouse with a twitchy nose 鼻子不停地抽动的老鼠。 Example sentencesExamples - Last night I dreamt I had a hamster, it was very small, and kind of caramel coloured and white, with a little twitchy nose and fluffy fur.
- Lying on one side had made her back stiff, and her legs a little twitchy… She felt drawn so tight, so tense, that she would snap.
- On the other hand, some suggest that it requires neither courage nor skill to outwit a bouncy, four-legged, floppy-eared thing with a twitchy pink nose.
- I watched her close her eyes and they seemed to tremble, the muscles of an eighty-year-old involuntarily twitchy.
- The gift also had a pink nose, pointy twitchy ears, and four paws.
- His eyes were kind of small and beady like a rat's and he had a twitchy little nose.
- And off she would go; and come back, grey eyes blank, wide mouth twitchy, ill-tempered from the drugs, at 10 the next morning.
- The rat was scuttling around sniffing things with its twitchy nose.
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