angle-twitch

Updated: May 7, 2025

Then there was Jago the Preventive man, light but wiry, and a very tricky wrestler: "a proper angle-twitch of a man," said one of the company; "stank 'pon both ends of 'en, and he'll rise up in the middle and laugh at 'ee." So they picked Jago for boat-oar.

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - News from the Duchy