twinge

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A sharp, sudden physical pain. synonym: pain.
• noun A mental or emotional pain.
• intransitive verb To feel or be the source of a twinge or twinges.
• intransitive verb To cause to feel a twinge or twinges.
• intransitive verb Obsolete To tweak; pinch.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To press; constrain; oppress; affiict.
• To pull with a sharp, pinching jerk; tweak; twitch.
• To torment with sharp, darting pains; sting: said of physical or mental pain.
• To have a sharp, jerking pain, like a twitch; suffer a keen, shooting pain.
• noun A nipping or pinching; a twitch; a tweak.
• noun A sharp, darting pain of momentary continuance; a pang, physical or mental.
• noun Synonyms See pain and agony.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.
• transitive verb To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.
• intransitive verb To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain.
• noun A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.
• noun A sudden sharp pain; a darting local pain of momentary continuance.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.
• noun A sudden sharp pain; a darting local pain of momentary continuance; as, a twinge in the arm or side.
• verb To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.
• verb To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.
• verb To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain; as, the side twinges.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb cause a stinging pain
• verb feel a sudden sharp, local pain
• verb squeeze tightly between the fingers
• noun a sharp stab of pain
• noun a sudden sharp feeling