Cf. tuck-shop = a pastrycook’s.

The term is also used as a generic for edibles and appetite.

twig

»Too terribly true. She’d twig it.» (They And I. 258. 4.)

A schoolgirl.

»It being a foggy night, nobody twigged me.» (Tommy And Co. 42. 21.)

A London brat.

Schoolboy slang for notice.

Cf. »Glad you are not twigged, gen’lemen.» (F. W. Farrar, Eric or Little By Little. III.)