Synonyms:
pang, stab, twinge
Meaning: a sudden sharp feeling; "pangs of regret"; "she felt a stab of excitement"; "twinges of conscience"
Usage examples
Milburgh scarcely felt a twinge of pain, only a mild irritating smarting and no more.
Arthur had felt a twinge of conscience during Mr. Poyser's speech, but it was too feeble to nullify the pleasure he felt in being praised.
With a queer little twinge of infringed proprietorship, the doctor saw Sir Richmond step up on the prostrate megalith and stand beside her, the better to appreciate her point of view.
I even went so far as to speak of a slightly hectic cough with which, at one time, I had been troubled--of a chronic rheumatism--of a twinge of hereditary gout--and, in conclusion, of the disagreeable and inconvenient, but hitherto carefully concealed, weakness of my eyes.