different between tich vs tigh

English

Etymology

After the music hall comedian Harry Relph, who used the stage name Little Tich. This referred to a supposed resemblance to the claimant in the Tichborne Case.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?t?/
• Rhymes: -?t?

Noun

tich (plural tiches)

1. (Britain, colloquial) A very small person.

Usage notes

• Sometimes used (capitalised) as a nickname. (As for example Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich.)

See also

• titch

Anagrams

• chit, itch

English

Etymology

Perhaps akin to tight.

Noun

tigh (plural tighs)

1. (obsolete) A close or enclosure; a croft.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Cowell to this entry?)

Anagrams

• ghit, gith, ight, thig

Irish

Alternative forms

• toigh

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /t???/
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /t?i?/

Noun

tigh m (genitive singular tí, nominative plural tithe)

1. Alternative form of teach (“house”)

Noun

tigh

1. dative singular of teach

Preposition

tigh (plus genitive, triggers no mutation directly, but definite noun phrases in the genitive are always lenited)

1. at the house of; chez

Mutation