tig

T1I1G2
/tɪɡ/

verb

To touch lightly or playfully; to trifle, dally.

OriginMiddle English ticken →
Less commonScrabble 4
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Meanings

tig1

verbtig (third-person singular simple present tigs, present participle tigging, simple past and past participle tigged)

present singular third person tigs · participle present tigging · participle past tigged · past tigged

  1. dialectalTo touch lightly or playfully; to trifle, dally.
nountig (plural tigs)

plural tigs

  1. dialectalA light touch; a tap or pat.
  2. IrelandScotlandEngland apart from the southThe children's game of tag.

    One evening when playing tig she had put her hands over his eyes: long and white and thin and cold and soft.

    1916, James Joyce, chapter I, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 36

tig2

nountig (plural tigs)

plural tigs · alternative tyg

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

TIG3

adjectiveTIG (not comparable)
  1. abbreviationacronymnot comparableAcronym of tungsten inert gas; pertaining to TIG welding.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
tagtouch

Origin

  1. Middle Englishticken
  2. Englishtig

Dialectal variant of tick, from Middle English ticken, tiken. More at tick.

More words from Middle English

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with tig

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Anagrams

git
Cite this entry
APA

tig. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tig

MLA

“tig.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tig. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tig,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tig.

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