different between ciggy vs iggy

English

Alternative forms

• ciggie

Pronunciation

Noun

ciggy (plural ciggies)

1. (Britain, slang) A cigarette.
   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 8,

     “Open early and close up late, get people before work and get people after work, not just the dear bloody housewifes going out for a packet of ciggies and a chit-chat.”

Synonyms

• (cigarette (slang)): cancer stick (derogatory), cig, coffin nail, fag (UK), smoke

English

Etymology

Diminutive ignore +? -y.

Verb

iggy (third-person singular simple present iggies, present participle iggying, simple past and past participle iggied)

1. (Internet slang, transitive) To ignore (a user on a chat system, etc.).
   • 2002, "MAGNOLIATR", Cleaning up this group? (on newsgroup misc.transport.trucking)

     […] sometimes they just really get under your skin but that is what they want to do. Just try to iggy them and you can always filter them out

   • 2003, "darix29", well its^[sic] decided (on newsgroup alc.suicide)

     i wrote somethin^[sic] to jammer and another thing to ginger, 2 things to ginger, and a few other things and got completely iggied
     and they were online cuz they replied to everybody.

   • 2007, "AllYou!", On Resentments and Buried Anger (on newsgroup alt.support.marriage)

     I'm just here to tell you that iggying people who give you problems is rarely a way to personal growth.

See also

• ig, igg
• iggie