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tweak

verb
/twiːk/

Etymology

From Middle English twikken, from Old English twiccian (“to pluck”), from Proto-West Germanic *twekkōn (“to fasten; clamp; pinch”). Related to twitch. The drug-related sense may be a blend of twitch and freak.

  1. inherited from *twekkōn✻ — “to fasten; clamp; pinch”
  2. inherited from twiccian — “to pluck”
  3. inherited from twikken

Definitions

  1. To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist

    To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch.

    • to tweak the nose.

  2. To adjust slightly

    To adjust slightly; to fine-tune.

    • If we tweak the colors towards blue, it will look more natural.
    • Yet on January 10th, only weeks before the charter was due to come into force, the prime minister said his government was tweaking the draft.

  3. To tease, to annoy

    To tease, to annoy; to get under the skin of (someone, typically so as to irritate them, or by extension to enamor, frighten, etc).

    • Oh, he loved to tweak people and say things like "Hiya sweetums" to me because that was not exactly de rigueur in front of a bunch of strong feminists. He had this enormous sense of humor. I never knew what he was going to say.
    • I know what kinds of intervals and melodies tweak people—I know how to make people's skin crawl, how to make them shiver. I can't say it works on all listeners. There are some people, such as overly trained composers and theorists ...
    • “Russia needs leadership and he knows how to tweak people.” He grinned, “He made a convert of me,” chuckling. “I wanted to lead him by the hand, now I follow him like a puppy dog.”
  4. ›+ 11 more definitions

    1. To abuse methamphetamines, especially crystal meth.

    2. To exhibit extreme nervousness, evasiveness when confronted by authorities,…

      To exhibit extreme nervousness, evasiveness when confronted by authorities, compulsiveness, erratic motion, excitability, etc, due to or mimicking the symptoms of methamphetamine abuse.

    3. To be extremely confused

      To be extremely confused; to have no clue what is happening.

      • Am I tweaking or does 2020 feel like 6 months ago?
      • If you didn't think that was a good halftime show you're actually tweaking
      • Some of yall gonna think im tweaking but FRONTIER>>>>>>HUENEME

    4. From a catapult, to strike a target with a missile.

    5. A sharp pinch or jerk

      A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch.

      • a tweak of the nose

    6. A slight adjustment or modification.

      • He is running so many tweaks it is hard to remember how it looked originally.

    7. Trouble

      Trouble; distress; tweag.

    8. A prostitute.

      • Thence to Bautree, as I came there, From the bushes near the lane, there Rush'd a tweak in gesture flanting With a leering eye, and wanton: But my flesh I did subdue it Fearing lest my purse should rue it.

    9. Methamphetamine.

    10. A single inhalation of cocaine.

    11. An additional input to a block cipher, used in conjunction with the key to select the…

      An additional input to a block cipher, used in conjunction with the key to select the permutation computed by the cipher.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for tweak. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA