Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that twitches.
- noun Chiefly British A bird watcher, especially one who observes rare birds.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which twitches.
- noun plural Small pincers.
- noun An instrument used for clinching hog-rings.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, twitches.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone or something that
twitches . - noun An
eager birdwatcher who is willing to travel long distances to see rare species.
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Examples
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In the same way that a sprinter is an athlete, but an athlete is not necessarily a sprinter, a twitcher is a birdwatcher, but a birdwatcher is not necessarily a twitcher.
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Dozens of 'twitcher' couples have entered a contest for "the best birdwatchers 'jobs in the world" on one of Britain's most isolated islands.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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The arduous journey to see the small seabirds demands more than a birdwatcher's interest - it requires the tenacity of a "twitcher," someone who travels far to find rare birds.
NPR Topics: News 2009
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Mark, who as well as being a highly skilled conservator and connoisseur of Latin American dancing is also a dedicated twitcher, knew what I meant.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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It was one of those things where you see the first proto, and you go: 'Oooh…' I call it a nose twitcher.
Money bags: the story behind Mulberry's Alexa Polly Vernon 2010
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I might add that my English brother-in-law, an expert twitcher, insists that they are not robins at all.
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The keen twitcher braved the elements to spread a few handfuls of bird seed in her back garden and on the front communal lawn outside her bungalow, as she has done for the last 20 years.
Life in unelected PM James Gordon Brown's "Cool Britannia" FIDO The Dog 2009
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I might add that my English brother-in-law, an expert twitcher, insists that they are not robins at all.
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Liz Henthorn, 66, a retired nurse who is one of 120 "Street Hawk" volunteers in Enfield, north London, openly describes herself as a "curtain twitcher" but insists she is not snooping on anyone.
Archive 2008-09-01 FIDO The Dog 2008
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I was an avid twitcher until i got sent here by one of their links and I fell in love.
First Look: Nic Cage in Matthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass « FirstShowing.net 2008
johnmperry commented on the word twitcher
ornithologist or bird-watcher
A story from the late Humphrey Lyttelton, himself a bird-watcher: he gave a lift in his car once to a man who called himself an "orthinologist". He just wished he'd had the wit at the time to call him a word-botcher.
July 13, 2008
qms commented on the word twitcher
The bower bird is an artful stitcher,
The fork-tailed drongo a lying snitcher.
Strange birds astound
And odd ducks abound,
But oddest of all is the peeping twitcher.
July 17, 2014