Tiggerish

comparative more Tiggerish · superlative most Tiggerish

1. UK(Excessively) cheerful and exuberant; bouncy.

   And still there is about him a hint of the ingenu; a Tiggerish quality of enthusiasm for the [Tony] Blair vision that has nothing to do with fawning loyalism.

   1996, New Statesman, volume 125, London: New Statesman Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 25, column 2

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   In the crucial scene of third-degree examination the wife of the accused turns on the magistrate and berates him with tiggerish ferocity and later stabs him to his death by way of reprisal.

   1920, Burns Mantle, The Best Plays of 1919–1920: And the Year Book of the Drama in America (The Burns Mantle Yearbook), Boston, Mass.: Small, Maynard & Company, →OCLC, page 431

   If you want to kill inertia and overcome the hard part of starting up, in your own way you've got to develop Tiggerish characteristics. You need a relentless, boundless optimistic enthusiasm for what can be achieved although it is yet to happen […]

   2009, Will King, “Chapter New: You”, in How to Build a Great Business in Tough Times: The King of Shaves Story, London: Headline Business Plus, →ISBN

   Everyone likes Sam – often despite themselves – because he makes them feel likeable, because they want him to like them back, because he exudes such a Tiggerish enthusiasm for life. Quite simply, he makes life more interesting.

   2010, Iain Hollingshead, chapter 2, in Beta Male: Four Friends, Three Assumed Identities, Two Weddings and One Very Dangerous Bet, London; New York, N.Y.: Duckworth Overlook, →ISBN

   Perhaps because of these emotionally engaging techniques, [Adam] Curtis inspires cultish devotion, and not just from viewers – he has won six Baftas. A former politics tutor at Oxford, and a Tiggerish man of 55, it's surprising to learn that he began his career in TV working on the zany magazine show That's Life! […]

   2011 May 6, Katharine Viner, “Adam Curtis: Have computers taken away our power?”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2017

   Synonyms: energetic, lively