Tiggerish
Syllables: Tig·ger·ishUK/ˈtɪɡəɹɪʃ/
Tiggerish adjective: (Excessively) cheerful and exuberant; bouncy.
Adjective
Tiggerish (comparative more Tiggerish, superlative most Tiggerish)
- (Excessively) cheerful and exuberant; bouncy.
- In the crucial scene of third-degree examination the wife of the accused turns on the magistrate and berates him with tiggerish ferocity and later stabs him to his death by way of reprisal.1920, Burns Mantle, The Best Plays of 1919–1920: And the Year Book of the Drama in America (The Burns Mantle Yearbook), Boston, Mass.: Small, Maynard & Company, →OCLC, page 431
- And still there is about him a hint of the ingenu; a Tiggerish quality of enthusiasm for the [Tony] Blair vision that has nothing to do with fawning loyalism.1996, New Statesman, volume 125, London: New Statesman Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 25, column 2
Examples of Tiggerish in a sentence
- If you want to kill inertia and overcome the hard part of starting up, in your own way you've got to develop Tiggerish characteristics.2009, Will King, “Chapter New: You”, in How to Build a Great Business in Tough Times: The King of Shaves Story, London: Headline Business...
- Everyone likes Sam – often despite themselves – because he makes them feel likeable, because they want him to like them back, because he exudes such a Tiggerish enthusiasm for life.2010, Iain Hollingshead, chapter 2, in Beta Male: Four Friends, Three Assumed Identities, Two Weddings and One Very Dangerous Bet, London...
- A former politics tutor at Oxford, and a Tiggerish man of 55, it's surprising to learn that he began his career in TV working on the zany magazine show That's Life! […]2011 May 6, Katharine Viner, “Adam Curtis: Have computers taken away our power?”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 10...
Synonyms of Tiggerish
Forms of Tiggerish
| comparative | more Tiggerish |
|---|---|
| superlative | most Tiggerish |
Origin of Tiggerish
From Tigger + -ish, from the nature of the fictional character Tigger in works about Winnie-the-Pooh by the English author A. A. Milne (1882–1956).
Questions about Tiggerish
- What does Tiggerish mean?
- Tiggerish means (Excessively) cheerful and exuberant; bouncy.
- How do you use Tiggerish in a sentence?
- If you want to kill inertia and overcome the hard part of starting up, in your own way you've got to develop Tiggerish characteristics.
- What part of speech is Tiggerish?
- Tiggerish is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce Tiggerish?
- Tiggerish is pronounced /ˈtɪɡəɹɪʃ/ (UK).
Words near Tiggerish in the dictionary
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