单词 | tig |
释义 | tign. 1. A touch: usually a light but significant touch, a tap or pat, = tick n.3 1; rarely applied to one that hurts. Scottish and northern dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > touching > [noun] riningOE touchingc1300 taking1340 toucha1387 tastea1400 atouchment1483 tuckingc1485 tacture1598 taction1623 contaction1628 tactation1688 tig1721 tact1801 skinship1966 1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 243 Many Masters, quoth the Poddock to the Harrow, when every Tin[e] gave her a Tig. 1822 J. Galt Sir Andrew Wylie I. v. 36 It's bairnly to mak sic a wark for a bit tig on the haffet. 1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Tig, a slight touch; as a mode of salutation. 1897 E. W. Hamilton Outlaws of Marches ii. 21 Just a tig of the cheek, Gavin... There's nothing in that to shame an honest man, surely? 2. A children's game, in which one of the players—usually designated tig or it—pursues the others until he overtakes and touches or ‘tigs’ one, who in his turn becomes ‘tig’: the same as tag n.2Cf. tick n.3 1b, and Sanders Wörterb. (1865) Der Zeck, ein Spiel der Kinder, wobei eins dem Andern einen Schlag giebt. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > hiding or chasing game > [noun] > tag tick1622 hide-and-seek1724 tag1738 tig1816 touch-last1825 touch1828 widdy widdy way1832 touch and run1844 tiggy1845 widdy1859 Tommy Touchwood1876 pom-pom-pull-away1883 pull-away1883 squat tag1883 stoop tag1898 he1900 it1969 shadow tag1969 1816 S. M. Tait in Remin. Lady Wake (1909) v. 62 If it is wet, we play at tigg up and down the stairs. 1854 J. W. Warter Last of Old Squires ii. 15 The sons..would have a start with the fleetest youths of the hamlet at prisoner's-base, or the old fashion'd game of tic. 1885 H. O. Forbes Naturalist's Wanderings Eastern Archipel. 68 With varieties of chevy, tig, and blind-man's buff. 1894 Mrs. H. Ward Marcella I. i. i. 12 The mad games of ‘tig’, which she led..in the top playground. 3. colloquial (originally Scottish). A fit of bad temper. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > [noun] > fit of gloominga1400 terret1515 momurdotesc1540 the sullens1580 pirr1581 pet1590 snuff1592 mulligrubs1599 mumps1599 geea1605 mood1609 miff1623 tetch1623 frumps1671 strunt1721 hump1727 tiff1727 tift1751 huff1757 tig1773 tout1787 sulk1792 twita1825 fantigue1825 fuff1834 grumps1844 spell1856 the grumbles1861 grouch1895 snit1939 mardy1968 moody1969 strop1970 sull1972 cream puff1985 mard1998 1773 R. Fergusson in Weekly Mag. 22 209/1 What tig then takes the fates, that they can thole, Thrawart to fix me i' this weary hole? 1895 R. Ford Tayside Songs 71 She left me in a tig. 1934 N. Marsh Man lay Dead xii. 206 ‘You shall have every opportunity,’ soothed Alleyn. ‘What a tig you are in, to be sure!’ 1943 N. Marsh Colour Scheme xii. 217 I must say..that I can't see why you're getting into such a tig over it. 1962 Punch 24 Oct. 587/1 The spectacle of a man in a tig, even of two men in a tig, is not as a rule wholly entertaining. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). tigv. 1. a. intransitive. To give light or playfully rough touches; esp. figurative to trifle, dally with; †to tig and tar = tick and toy at tick v.1 1a. Scottish and northern dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > touching > touching with the hand > touch or feel with the hand [verb (intransitive)] > touch lightly tig?a1500 a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Trial of Fox l. 802 in Poems (1981) 34 [The fox] That luifit weill with pultrie to tig and tar. 1634 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. 140 He may get up and lend them a blow who are tigging and playing with Christ and His spouse. 1818 G. Beattie John o' Arnha' (ed. 2) 41 It was nae joke To tig wi' fiends that vomit smoke. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) Young people are said to be tigging, when sporting with gentle touches, or patting each other. b. figurative. To interfere, meddle, have to do with. Scottish. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > be occupied or busy (in or at something) [verb (intransitive)] > be involved in or have to do with something entermetec1300 to make (a) market1340 meddlec1390 to do with ——a1400 mell1416 intermeddle1477 intermell1480 to have art or (and) part ina1500 participate1531 to have a finger (also hand) in the pie?1553 tigc1598 get1727 concern1791 involve1843 to mix up1882 tew1891 to screw with ——1973 c1598 King James VI & I Basilicon Doron (1944) I. ii. 60 As for the matter of forfaltouris..it is not goode tigging uith thaise things. 1801 W. Beattie Fruits Time Parings 38 They that tig wi' you Will soon hae cause to claw. 1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xix. 147 Nedder you nor Mr. Sleekaboot made yer plack a bawbee by tiggin wi' her. 2. a. transitive. To touch in the game of tig (tig n. 2). Also absol. (see also 2b). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > hiding or chasing game > [verb (transitive)] > tag tig1821 tag1878 tick1913 1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 38/1 To join the merry ring at..Tig me if you can. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Tig, to touch lightly;..to have the last touch when leaving school. 1866 A. W. Buchan Song of Rest ii. 29 Some tig and run, some ride upon the wall. 1893 E. L. Wakeman in Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 19 Oct. The chief point in this game [French Tig] is always to tig on a portion of the body difficult to hold whilst tigging another. b. intransitive. figurative. To ‘pluck’ or ‘dig’ at, as if playing tig; to annoy one by petty provocations. dialect. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > be annoyed or vexed by [verb (transitive)] > annoy or vex > tease tease1627 rag1749 lugger1782 gammon1801 tig1805 fun1811 run1828 ride1891 rawhide1895 to bust (a person's) chops1953 stir1972 to pull a person's chain1975 1805 R. Anderson Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 48 Now, tiggin at me suin and late, They're cleekin but the yellow bait. 1844 A. Smart in D. Robertson Songs for Nursery 80/2 Father, settle Sandy! He's cryin' names to me, He's aye tig, tiggin', An' winna let me be. 3. intransitive. transferred. To run from place to place, as if chased. dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > move in a certain direction [verb (intransitive)] > move hither and thither or in different directions roilc1425 flirt1578 vary1667 tig1834 to hither and thither1856 1834 S. Lover Legends & Stories Ireland 2nd Ser. 297 He run undher a stool, and kept tiggin' about from one place to th' other. 1882 J. Walker Descr. Jaunt to Auld Reekie 13 Like cattle tiggin' frae the clegs and flees Awa they scamper. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmasT.I.G. T.I.G. n. (also Tig) Engineering tungsten inert gas (with reference to welding with a tungsten electrode in an atmosphere of an inert gas). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > welding > types of butt welding1878 lead burning1886 arc welding1890 thermite process1905 thermite welding1906 resistance welding1908 spot welding1908 seam welding1917 fusion welding1918 projection welding1918 stud welding1918 metal arc welding1926 pressure welding1926 metallic arc welding1927 flash-butt welding1933 flash welding1933 stitch welding1934 rightward welding1936 block welding1943 submerged-arc welding1945 friction welding1946 T.I.G.1960 microwelding1962 1960 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. XIV. 467/2 Inert gas shielding is essential with tungsten electrodes, hence the term Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) welding. 1969 D. K. Allen Metall. Theory & Pract. xix. 612 (caption) Photomicrograph of a Tig weld with low voltage electron beam weld in center of Tig nugget to show relative width of heat affected zone in each process. 1975 G. Bram & C. Downs Manuf. Technol. ii. 55 The T.I.G. process differs from the manual metal-arc technique in as much as the electrode is virtually non-consumable. < n.1721v.?a1500 as lemmas |
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