different between tig vs nig

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• tyg

Noun

tig (plural tigs)

1. (historical) A capacious, flat-bottomed drinking cup, generally with four handles, formerly used for passing around the table at convivial entertainment.

Etymology 2

Noun

tig (uncountable)

1. (Ireland) The children's game of tag.
   • 1916, James Joyce, 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.

Anagrams

• GTi, IGT, git

Cebuano

Etymology

From tig-.

Noun

tig

1. (often humorous, derogatory) a gofer; a worker who runs errands

Dutch

Etymology

From the suffix -tig used to form multiples of ten.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?x

Determiner

tig

1. (informal) tens, dozens, lots

   Ik kan wel tig redenen bedenken waarom dit fout is!

   I can think of dozens of reasons why this is wrong!

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French tigre (“tiger”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti?/

Noun

tig

1. tiger

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish ·ticc, prototonic form of do·icc (“comes”).

Verb

tig

1. Alternative form of tagann, the present indicative analytic of tar

Usage notes

The form tig is especially common in tar le (“be able”).

Etymology 2

Variant form of tuig.

Verb

tig (present analytic tigeann, future analytic tigfidh, verbal noun tiscint, past participle tigthe)

1. Cois Fharraige form of tuig (“to understand”)

Conjugation

Etymology 3

Pronunciation spelling based on the fact that word-final -igh and -ig are pronounced the same in Munster.

Noun

tig m

1. Munster spelling of tigh (“house”)

Mutation

Livonian

Etymology

Related to Estonian tige.

Adjective

tig

1. angry

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?i??/

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the main entry.

Alternative forms

• taig

Noun

tig n

1. dative singular of tech

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

tig

1. genitive singular masculine/neuter of tiug

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic

Verb

tig

1. future of thig

Usage notes

• This is the dependent form, the basic form being thig.

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i??

Verb

tig

1. imperative of tiga.

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Clipping of niggard. Unrelated to nigger.

Noun

nig (plural nigs)

1. (archaic) niggard

Etymology 2

Clipping of nigger.

Noun

nig (plural nigs)

1. (offensive, ethnic slur) nigger
   • 1961, Robert Hale Strong, A Yankee private's Civil War

     In a field near the house was a nigger working a poor old broken-down mule and another nigger sowing wheat. When we came up, both nigs quit work and stared at us.

Verb

nig (third-person singular simple present nigs, present participle nigging, simple past and past participle nigged)

1. (Internet slang, ethnic slur) to behave as a stereotypical black person

Anagrams

• -ing, -ïng, GNI, IGN, NGI, gin, ing

Volapük

Noun

nig (nominative plural nigs)

1. ink

Declension

Derived terms

• nigiär

Yapese

Noun

nig

1. fish