subs. (venery).—1.  A harlot; (2) a wencher. [In TUSSER, Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie, ‘Jan.’ = a good breeder.] TWIGLE = to copulate (HALLIWELL).

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  1612.  BRETON, Pasquil’s Night-Cap.

        Now, Benedicite, her mother said,
And hast thou beene already such a TWIGGER.

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  c. 1613.  MIDDLETON, No Wit, No Help like a Woman’s, iv. 1. The mother of her was a good TWIGGER the whilst.

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  1694.  MOTTEUX, Rabelais, v., ‘The Pantagruelian Prognostication.’ TWIGGERS, harlots, kept wenches.

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