1653. Blithe, Eng. Improv. Impr., xxviii. (ed. 3), 193. If upon a stony land, or twichy woody Land, it must be narrower. Ibid., 196. Lands … hard rooty, rushy, twichy, or any way unfeacible.
1829. Glover’s Hist. Derby, I. 195. He ploughs twitchy lands but once.
c. 1837. Clare, To the Lark, iii., in Life & Rem. (1873), 137. How beautiful to see thee … Winnowing thy russet wings above thy twitchy nest.
