LekhoriLekhoriTo pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch.
to tweak the nose.
To adjust slightly; to fine-tune.
If we tweak the colors towards blue, it will look more natural.
To tease, to annoy; to get under the skin of (someone, typically so as to irritate them, or by extension to enamor, frighten, etc).
Oh, he loved to tweak people and say things like "Hiya sweetums" to me because that was not exactly de rigueur in front of a bunch of strong feminists. He had this enormous sense of humor. I never knew what he was going to say.
A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch.
a tweak of the nose
A slight adjustment or modification.
He is running so many tweaks it is hard to remember how it looked originally.
From Middle English twikken, from Old English twiccian (“to pluck”), from Proto-West Germanic *twekkōn (“to fasten; clamp; pinch”). Related to twitch. The drug-related sense may be a blend of twitch a...
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Trouble; distress; tweag.