ひねる

ichidan verb, intransitive verb

age; get old; go stale

Used for people, things, or food that become old, stale, or past their prime. Often carries a negative nuance of deterioration.

• このパンはもうひねってしまった。

  This bread has already gone stale.

• 彼かれは若わかいのに考かんがえ方かたがひねっている。

  He's young but his way of thinking is old-fashioned.

ichidan verb, intransitive verb

precocious; too grown-up for one's age

Describes a child who acts or thinks in a way that is unusually mature, often with a slightly negative or critical tone.

• あの子こはまだ小しょう学がく生せいなのに、話はなし方かたがひねている。

  That child is still in elementary school, but the way they talk is precocious.

ichidan verb, intransitive verb

become twisted; become warped; become perverse

Colloquial use for personality or thinking becoming twisted, cynical, or perverse. Not used for physical twisting.

• あいつは最さい近きんひねってきて、何なにを言いっても否ひ定てい的てきだ。

  He's gotten twisted lately and is negative about everything.