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igg

igg verb: to ignore deliberately.

Verb

igg (third-person singular simple present iggs, present participle igging, simple past and past participle igged)

  1. (colloquial, transitive) To ignore deliberately.
    • But not knowing my own mind, I made it hard for Mabel, keeping late hours, igging her, and playing Cherie. Then, one day while Mabel was at work, I packed my clothes and left.1953, Langston Hughes, ‘Simple Takes a Wife’, in 2002, Donna Sullivan Harper (editor), The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The Early Simple Stories, Volume 7, page 202
    • I mean you can know that the little yalla boys and girls or the med and dent students are “igging” you and be igged and conscious (to the degree you are conscious) of it, […]1984, Imamu Amiri Baraka, The autobiography of LeRoi Jones, page 95

Proper noun capitalized: IGG

IGG

  1. (Uganda, abbreviation) Abbreviation of Inspectorate of Government.
    • Uganda grapples with widespread government corruption with an estimated Sh. 10 trillion ($2.7 billion) in public funding diverted each year, according to its anti-graft body, the Inspectorate of Government (IGG).2024 July 22, Nimi Princewill, “Uganda’s President Museveni warns citizens they are ‘playing with fire’ over planned protests”, in CNN

Noun capitalized: IgG

IgG (uncountable)

  1. Immunoglobulin G.

Forms of igg

third-person singular presentiggs
present participleigging
past participleigged
pastigged
alternative formig
alternative formiggy

Origin of igg

Clipping of ignore.

Words formed from igg

Phrases with igg

Questions about igg

What does igg mean?
Igg means to ignore deliberately.
What part of speech is igg?
Igg can be a verb, a proper noun or a noun.
What is the past tense of igg?
The past tense of igg is igged.

Words near igg in the dictionary

  1. iGeneration
  2. Iger
  3. Iges
  4. IGF
  5. IGFs
  6. igg
  7. igged
  8. iggie
  9. iggied
  10. iggies
  11. igging

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Adapted from Wiktionary: igg (page history and authors); IGG (page history and authors); IgG (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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