English (Midlands): nickname for a thin person, from Middle English
twigge ‘twig’, ‘shoot’. Since the word occurs only late in the
Old English period and was initially confined to northern dialects, it
may be a borrowing from Old Norse.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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