Usually means: Experiencing a sudden, sharp pain.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word twinging:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. twinging: Merriam-Webster
  2. twinging: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. twinging: Collins English Dictionary
  4. twinging: Vocabulary.com
  5. twinging: Wordnik
  6. twinging: Wiktionary
  7. twinging: Dictionary.com
  8. Twinging: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Twinging: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. twinging: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. twinging: FreeDictionary.org
  12. twinging: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. twinging: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (twinge)

verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To have a sudden, pinching or sharp pain in a specific part of the body, like a twitch.
verb:  (obsolete except UK, dialectal) To pull and twist.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete)
verb:  (except UK, dialectal) To pull and twist (someone or something); to pinch, to tweak, to twitch, to wring.
verb:  To affect or torment (someone, their mind, or part of their body) with one or more sudden, pinching or sharp pains; to irritate.
verb:  (figurative) To prick or stimulate (one's conscience).
noun:  A sudden, pinching or sharp pain in a specific part of the body, especially one lasting for a short time.
noun:  (rare, also figurative) A turn, a twist.
noun:  (figurative)
noun:  A sudden, sharp feeling of an emotional or mental nature, as of guilt or sadness; a pang, a paroxysm, a throe; also, a prick of the conscience.
noun:  A sudden, sharp occurrence of something; a nip.
noun:  (UK, dialectal) Synonym of earwig (“insect of the order Dermaptera”)
noun:  (obsolete) An act of pulling and twisting; a pinch, a tweak, a twitch.
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