- pang: a sudden sharp feeling; "pangs of regret"; "she felt a stab of excitement"; "twinges of conscience"
- prick: cause a stinging pain; "The needle pricked his skin"
- feel a sudden sharp, local pain
- a sharp stab of pain
- pinch: squeeze tightly between the fingers; "He pinched her behind"; "She squeezed the bottle"
- An Internet-based computer-networking term. A Twinge attack is a flood of false ICMP packets in an attempt to cripple a system.