Complete Definition of "tig"

English

Noun
tig

  1. british tag, the children's game.
Quotations
1916, w:James Joyce|James Joyce, ''w:Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man|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.

Irish

Pronunciation
IPA|[tʲigʲ]

Verb form
tig (present of tar)

  1. come

Old English

Etymology
Common Germanic *tiguz, whence also Old High German zug, Old Norse tigr

Numeral
-tiġ

  1. -ty

vi:tig
vo:tig

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