: marked by twitches or jerking movements : tending to twitch
Oliver did not think he would be able to sleep, but he did sleep—a restless, twitchy sleep filled with hideous dreams. Eva Ibbotson
Round-shouldered yet angular, he walked in a twitchy manner that recalled a spider, his oily hair swinging about his face. J. K. Rowling
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: nervously on edge or fretful
This revelation was an incredible relief to those of us who get a little twitchy at the thought of making pasta … Jane Daniels Lear
There was action every minute, and so much momentum carrying the story forward that until I finished it, I was in a sort of twitchy agony if I got stuck doing anything else. Eric Konigsberg