twinge

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
twinge/twɪnʤ/

▶noun

• 1 a sudden, sharp localized pain.

• 2 a brief, sharp pang of emotion.

▶verb (twinges, twingeing or twinging, twinged) (of a part of the body) suffer a twinge.

– origin OE twengan ‘pinch, wring’, of Gmc origin.