Tig in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Tig

You can make 5 words from 'tig' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 3 letters words from 'tig'
• 2 letters words from 'tig'

3 letters words from 'tig'

GIT 4

TIG 4

2 letters words from 'tig'

GI 3	IT 2
TI 2

Definitions and meaning of tig

tig

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɪɡ/
• Rhymes: -ɪɡ

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• tyg

Noun

tig (plural tigs)

1. (historical) A capacious, flat-bottomed drinking cup, generally with four handles, formerly used for passing around the table at convivial entertainment.

Etymology 2

Noun

tig (uncountable)

1. (Ireland) The children's game of tag.
   • 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, page 43

     One evening when playing tig she had put her hands over his eyes: long and white and thin and cold and soft.

Anagrams

• GTi, IGT, git

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Cebuano

Etymology

From tig-.

Noun

tig

1. (often humorous, derogatory) a gofer; a worker who runs errands

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Dutch

Etymology

From the suffix -tig used to form multiples of ten.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪx

Determiner

tig

1. (informal) tens, dozens, lots

   Ik kan wel tig redenen bedenken waarom dit fout is!

   I can think of dozens of reasons why this is wrong!

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Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French tigre (“tiger”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiɡ/

Noun

tig

1. tiger

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Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʲɪɟ/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish ·ticc, prototonic form of do·icc (“comes”).

Verb

tig

1. Alternative form of tagann, the present indicative analytic of tar

Usage notes

The form tig is especially common in tar le (“be able”).

Etymology 2

Variant form of tuig.

Verb

tig (present analytic tigeann, future analytic tigfidh, verbal noun tiscint, past participle tigthe)

1. Cois Fharraige form of tuig (“to understand”)

Conjugation

Etymology 3

Pronunciation spelling based on the fact that word-final -igh and -ig are pronounced the same in Munster.

Noun

tig m

1. Munster spelling of tigh (“house”)

Mutation

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Livonian

Etymology

Related to Estonian tige.

Adjective

tig

1. angry

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Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʲiɣʲ/

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the main entry.

Alternative forms

• taig

Noun

tig n

1. dative singular of tech

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

tig

1. genitive singular masculine/neuter of tiug

Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic

Verb

tig

1. future of thig

Usage notes

• This is the dependent form, the basic form being thig.

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːɡ

Verb

tig

1. imperative of tiga.

Source: wiktionary.org

• TIFT, (Scots) to quarrel, be in a huff.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)

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