tiggyn.1
/ˈtɪɡi/ Chiefly northern dialect.
The children's game ‘tig’; the player who is ‘it’. Also tiggy (or tiggery) touchwood, a version of the game in which players can only be caught when they are not touching a tree, piece of wood, etc. (see touch v. Phrases 2f(a)).
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > hiding or chasing game > [noun] > tag
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Tommy Touchwood1876
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > hiding or chasing game > [noun] > tag > pursuer
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1845 in I. Opie & P. Opie Children's Games (1969) i. 23 The boy he has touched is made ‘tiggy’ until he can pay the compliment to some other boy.
1865 W. S. Banks List Provinc. Words Wakefield 74 Tiggery touch wood, a children's game, wherein one who ‘has the tiggs’ tries to ‘tigg’ some other who is not touching wood or does not claim bail or ‘barley’.
1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield 260 Tiggy-touchwood,..one of them, who is called Tiggy, stands out, and each of the other children takes hold of or touches a piece of wood... One of the children then leaves his ‘wood’, and runs across the play-ground, [etc.].
1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Tiggy, the game of tig.
1907 J. Donnan Hameland 3 Whiles we played at..‘tiggy touchwud’.
1983 P. Theroux Kingdom by Sea xxiv. 282 So I stayed the night in Cleethorpes and watched filthy children playing ‘Tiggy’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
tiggyn.2
/ˈtɪɡi/ = hedgehog n. 1.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > [noun] > order Insectivora > family Erinaceidae (hedgehog)
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gypsies' pig1928
tiggy1938
1905 B. Potter Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-winkle 85 Mrs. Tiggy-winkle was nothing but a Hedgehog!]
1938 T. H. White Sword in Stone xxi. 303 Us be'nt no common tiggy Mëaster, for to be munched and mumbled.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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