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English

Noun

tig

tag, the children's game.

Quotations

1916, w:James Joyce|James Joyce, ''w:Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man|Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, page 43
: One evening when playing tig she had put her hands over his eyes : long and white and thin and cold and soft.

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Irish

Pronunciation

IPA: [tʲigʲ]

Verb form

tig (present of tar)

come

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Old English

Etymology

Common Germanic *tiguz, whence also Old High German zug, Old Norse tigr

Numeral

-tiġ

vi:tig vo:tig

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Tig \Tig\, n.
1. A game among children. See Tag.
[1913 Webster]

2. A capacious, flat-bottomed drinking cup, generally with
four handles, formerly used for passing around the table
at convivial entertainment.
[1913 Webster]