twig
/twɪɡ/ noun B2- A small thin branch of a tree or bush. · They used twigs and leaves as a base to start the fire.
- Somebody, or one of their body parts, not looking developed.
Plural twigs
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“This thing will die if I do not give it things to eat”; and he dropped twigs and dried bark on the red stuff.
Mowgli thrust his dead branch into the fire till the twigs lit and crackled, and whirled it above his head among the cowering wolves.
He had hardly spoken when a shower of nuts and twigs spattered down through the branches; and they could hear coughings and howlings and angry jumpings high up in the air among the thin branches.
Rotten twigs and dry boughs are they all.”
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