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Teague, Taig colloq.|teɪg, tiːg|, |teɪg|
Also 7 teg, 8 teigue.
[Anglicized spelling of the Irish name Tadhg, variously pronounced (teɪg, tiːg, taɪg), fancifully identified with Thaddeus and its familiar form Thady.]
†1. A nickname for an Irishman. Obs. or arch.
[1583in Dillwyn Contrib. Hist. Swansea (1840) 18 William Tege and Daniell John, Irishmen, made suet to be admytted Fremen.] 1661Merry Drollery ii. 143 Let not poor Teg and Shone Vender from der houses. 1682New News fr. Bedlam 3 Those Sham Intrigues, From French, from English, and from Irish Teagues. 1689in Harl. Misc. (1746) VIII. 603/1 Irish Frize..to rig a whole Regiment of his new⁓raised Teagues. c1720Prior On Person who wrote ill, His case appears to me like honest Teague's, When he was run away with, by his legs. 1727Swift Market-hill Thorn Wks. 1755 IV. i. 90 Pigs and fanaticks, cows and teagues..To tear thy hedges join in leagues. 1865Lowell Pr. Wks. (1890) II. 20 If we took warning by the example of Teague and Taffy. 1899H. C. Hart in Phil. Soc. Trans. 8 Jeremiah has Irish equivalent Diarmid or Darby;..Theophilus, Teddy; Thaddeus, Thady... The last two are from Irish Tadhg or Teig or Thady, a poet, which gives rise also to Teague, a name not now in use, but formerly a sobriquet (like the modern Paddy) for an Irishman. 1900S. Weyman Sophia i, A raw-boned, uncouth Teague.
2. Usu. in form Taig. In Northern Ireland, a Protestant term of contempt for a Roman Catholic.
1971Times 13 May 2/6 Taig is Protestant slang for a Roman Catholic. 1973Spectator 3 Mar. 263/2 The Prods are only having their shops blown up and suffering a few slight cases of murder; the Teagues are losing their souls. 1978D. Murphy Place Apart vii. 133 In times of stress Loyalist paramilitaries can easily rouse large mobs and lead them out of the ghettos on Taig-bashing expeditions. 1982Observer 31 Oct. 8/3 This week a new slogan appeared along the Shankill Road, the backbone of Protestant West Belfast. It read: ‘All Taigs are targets.’
Hence † ˈTeaguism, the characteristics of a Teague or Irishman; † ˈTeagueland, Ireland; † ˈTeaguelander, an Irishman. Obs.
1689Answ. Lords & Commoners Sp. 27 Not to mention those Teague Land Sparks put over them. Ibid. 28 The Teague-Landers and others like them. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Teague-land, Ireland. Teague-landers, Irishmen. 1710–11Swift Jrnl. to Stella 30 Mar., Sir Thomas Mansel..saw Patrick, and swore he was a Teaguelander. 1732Sir C. Wogan Let. to Swift 27 Feb., The English writers take the hints from them [Irish]..and delight in gratifying the flattest nonsense..upon teigueism. |