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tyg

tyg is the alternative form of tig.

Meaning of tig

Noun (1)

tig (plural tigs)

  1. (dialectal) A light touch; a tap or pat.
  2. (Ireland, Scotland, England apart from the south) The children's game of tag.
    • One evening when playing tig she had put her hands over his eyes: long and white and thin and cold and soft.1916, James Joyce, chapter I, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 36

Noun (2)

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.

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Forms of tyg

pluraltygs

Questions about tyg

What is tyg the alternative form of?
Tyg is the alternative form of tig.

Words near tyg in the dictionary

  1. tyfoons
  2. tyfung
  3. tyfungs
  4. TYFYATTM
  5. TYFYS
  6. tyg
  7. Tygalgah
  8. tyger
  9. tygerish
  10. tygers
  11. Tygert

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tyg (page history and authors); tig (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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