Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To beseech; supplicate; implore: especially, to ask as alms; beg. Compare
thigger . - To make supplication; specifically, to profit by or live on the gifts of others; take alms. See the quotation under sorn.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
beseech ;supplicate ;implore . - verb transitive To
solicit , usually by begging;ask asalms ;beg . - verb intransitive To make
supplication . - verb intransitive To
profit by or live on the gifts of others. - verb intransitive To take alms.
- verb transitive, intransitive, Scotland To
crave ;seek (a favour).
Etymologies
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Examples
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The thig is Flo I don1 ` t care if he is reformed or not.
Porter Not Free Yet.... Newmania 2007
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Hey Sniffit, where were you when the Republican party spent millions of tax payer's money investigating and then impeaching President Clinton over this kind of thig?
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I say pass on your pasta salad, thanks .. and as all uninspired pseudo designer of new art, he only look at the pay check .. and that kind of thig was too risky … as for his acting .. naaah, you need glasses.
Robert De Niro Joining Mel Gibson in Edge of Darkness « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Tue 11/24/09 5: 29 PM no people will occasionaly have a thought provoking article, or focus on something not celeb related-like the heros among us thig.
'New Moon' polls: Switching teams? Bella really the best role model? | EW.com 2009
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This is the best thig i've seen in days, true! hilton
Eye Candy 2009
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This is the best thig i've seen in days, true! hilton
Eye Candy » E-Mail 2009
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They are afraid to do the right thig as they fear not getting re-elected and fear not getting millions in re-election funds from the big health insurace companies.
Top Dem aide: 'Significant policy issues' could still derail deal 2009
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So I think that the policy issue is one thig, the reality of the troops on the group and the support that they need, the resources they need, is an immediate demand.
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(I wonder if that “jig” part of “thig-ama-jig” will come back to haunt me.)
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Guys, from all the exp. and readings I've ever come up with, the .308 Win, By saying this I mean the Cart. not the bullet, can do any thig the 06 can do up to and including the 150 gr.
chained_bear commented on the word thig
"Gordon, a shy boy of about seventeen, was betrothed to a Quaker girl from Woolam's Mill; he'd been round the day before to 'thig'—beg small bits of household goods in preparation for his marriage."
—Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes (New York: Bantam Dell, 2005), 699
February 3, 2010