Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To touch lightly with the hand, as in the game of tag or tig; give a light stroke or tap to.
- noun A flat-bottomed drinking-cup, of capacious size and generally with four handles, formerly used for passing round the table at convivial entertainments.
- noun A light touch, such as is given in the game of tag or tig; a tap; a slight stroke.
- noun Same as
tag .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A game among children. See
tag . - noun A capacious, flat-bottomed drinking cup, generally with four handles, formerly used for passing around the table at convivial entertainment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Ireland
tag , the children's game. - noun A capacious, flat-bottomed drinking cup, generally with four handles, formerly used for passing around the table at convivial entertainment.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word tig.
Examples
-
She didn't like games, but I used to make her play "tig" and such like; but it was no fun, for I could always catch her in three jumps, and she could never catch me, though she would come with as much rustle and flutter as ten boys would make.
The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
-
With how many games of 'tig' or brick-building in the forenoon is the long low dining room connected in my mind!
The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson for Boys and Girls Jacqueline Overton 1872
-
Green, Dublin, playing at 'tig' or 'hide and seek' with his canine attendants.
-
When Messi collects the ball and sets off on one of his balletic dribbles, it is as though the ball is glued to his boot, and it is merely a game of playground 'tig'.
-
No -- during those first two years the only pleasures, so memory declared, were three: the visits of the cake-woman on Saturday -- Marcella sitting in her window could still taste the three-cornered puffs and small sweet pears on which, as much from a fierce sense of freedom and self-assertion as anything else, she had lavished her tiny weekly allowance; the mad games of "tig," which she led and organised in the top playground; and the kindnesses of fat Mademoiselle Rénier, Miss
Marcella Humphry Ward 1885
-
Nog erger is dat we per evenement tig van dit soort aanvragen krijgen.
Larp in de Gelderlander nathreee 2010
-
Hungary's prime minister pledged to push for tig hter spending rules and support the euro as his government takes up the EU's presidency.
-
Autodark Welding Mask Helmet for mig wire tig arc MAG 1
-
They called out to one another in their games of hide and seek or tig.
Kali's Dance Gileadslostson 2010
-
Most 3rd world skilled builders/labourers have the most primitive and basic hand tools only. and arc/tig/mig or oxyacetylene would be beyond their purchasing power.
PREFAB FRIDAY: Container House by Leger Wanaselja | Inhabitat 2008
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.