different between tig vs vig

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

Etymology

Clipping of vigorish, from Yiddish ???????? (vigrish), from Russian ???????? (výigryš, “winnings”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

vig (countable and uncountable, plural vigs)

1. (slang) Synonym of vigorish (“charge taken on bets”)
2. (US slang, crime) Synonym of vigorish (“interest from a loan, as from a loan shark”)
   • 1973, Martin Scorsese, Mardik Martin (screenplay), Mean Streets, quoted in 2009, Ellis Cashmore, Martin Scorsese's America, page 118,

     “You charged a guy from the neighborhood $1800 vig?” he asks incredulously (“vig” is short for vigorish, meaning a rate of interest from a loan from an illegal moneylender).
3. Synonym of vigorish (“commission, finder's fee, or similar extra charge”)

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *uig-, from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to revolve, turn, twist”). Cognate to Old English wice (“patch”) and Old Norse vik (“bight”).

Noun

vig m (indefinite plural vigje, definite singular vigu, definite plural vigjet)

1. stretcher, litter, bier, transition (consisting of beams)

Declension

Derived terms

• vigan

References

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi??/, [??i?]
• Homophone: hvi

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vík, from Proto-Germanic *w?k? (“village; inlet”), cognate with Norwegian, Swedish vik, English wick, Dutch wijk. Borrowed from Latin v?cus.

Noun

vig c (singular definite vigen, plural indefinite vige)

1. inlet (arm of the sea)

Inflection

Derived terms

• mundvig

References

• “vig” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

vig

1. imperative of vige

Romanian

Etymology

From Hungarian vég

Noun

vig n (plural viguri)

1. bolt of fabric

Declension

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i??

Verb

vig

1. imperative of viga.

Adjective

vig (comparative vigare, superlative vigast)

1. (of a person) limber, supple

Anagrams

• giv

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [vi?]

Noun

vig (nominative plural vigs)

1. week
2. sennight, sevennight

Declension