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What (who) is twitchy - definition
twitchy
AMERICAN TWITTER CURATION AND NEWS WEBSITE
Twitchy.com
¦ adjective (twitchier, twitchiest)
1. informal nervous.
2. given to twitching.
twitchy
AMERICAN TWITTER CURATION AND NEWS WEBSITE
Twitchy.com
If you are twitchy, you are behaving in a rather nervous way that shows you feel anxious and cannot relax. (INFORMAL)
Afraid of bad publicity, the department had suddenly become very twitchy about journalists.
= jumpy
ADJ
Twitcher
![Spotting rare birds, such as the [[Antioquia brushfinch]], pictured, is a goal for some birdwatchers](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Antioquia Brushfinch imported from iNaturalist photo 53700275 on 1 October 2021.jpg?width=200 "Spotting rare birds, such as the [[Antioquia brushfinch]], pictured, is a goal for some birdwatchers")
![Caerlaverock]], [[Scotland]], 6 June 2007](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Birders at Caerlaverock.jpg?width=200 "Caerlaverock]], [[Scotland]], 6 June 2007")
![Birders using a tower hide to gain views over foreground vegetation. Bay of Liminka, south of [[Oulu]], [[Finland]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Birdwatchers Liminka Bay 2006 04 14.JPG?width=200 "Birders using a tower hide to gain views over foreground vegetation. Bay of Liminka, south of [[Oulu]], [[Finland]].")
![Birdwatchers at J.N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge, [[Sanibel, Florida]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dingdarlingnnr.jpg?width=200 "Birdwatchers at J.N. \"Ding\" Darling National Wildlife Refuge, [[Sanibel, Florida]]")
![A birdwatching tower in [[Hankasalmi]], Finland](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Keskisenlampi birdwatching tower.jpg?width=200 "A birdwatching tower in [[Hankasalmi]], Finland")
![Moroccan students watching birds at Nador's lagoon as a part of [[environmental education]] activities organized by the [[Spanish Ornithological Society]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Observación de aves en Nador.JPG?width=200 "Moroccan students watching birds at Nador's lagoon as a part of [[environmental education]] activities organized by the [[Spanish Ornithological Society]]")
![migration]] bottleneck, seen from the [[Peloritani]] mountains](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Stretto di messina - bottleneck, sicilia, from the peloritani.jpg?width=200 "migration]] bottleneck, seen from the [[Peloritani]] mountains")
OBSERVATION OF BIRDS AS A RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY OR CITIZEN SCIENCE
Bird watching; Birding; Bird-watching; Bird Watchers; Twitcher; Bird watcher; Birder; Birdwatcher; Bird-watcher; Birdwatchers; Birders; Bird sighter; Bird sighting; Bird Watching; Bird watchers; Birdspotting
·noun One who, or that which, twitches.
Examples of use of twitchy
1. He is so twitchy, so bursting with brainy energy, like Stephen Hawking without the wheelchair.
2. Or maybe the Taiwanese were getting twitchy about Russian military exercises in China.
3. Downing Streets getting twitchy . . . six weeks, somebody a snip at six.
4. Forty years on, security specifications for her latest tour suggest she is just as twitchy.
5. Their excitability reminded researchers of nerve and muscle cells, which need to be twitchy to function.