different between jig vs tig

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: j?g; IPA^(key): /d????/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

An assimilated form of earlier gig, from Middle English gigge, from Old French gige, gigue (“a fiddle, kind of dance”), from Frankish *g?ge (“dance, fiddle”), from Proto-Germanic *g?gan? (“to move, wish, desire”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?ey??-, *g?eyg?- (“to yawn, gape, long for, desire”).

Cognate with Middle Dutch ghighe (“fiddle”), German Geige (“fiddle, violin”), Danish gige (“fiddle”), Icelandic gígja (“fiddle”). More at gig, geg.

Noun

jig (plural jigs)

1. (music) A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
2. (traditional Irish music and dance) A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.
3. (traditional English Morris dancing) A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.
4. (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
5. A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.

6. (mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
7. (obsolete) A light, humorous piece of writing, especially in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.
8. (obsolete) A trick; a prank.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

jig (third-person singular simple present jigs, present participle jigging, simple past and past participle jigged)

1. To move briskly, especially as a dance.

2. To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.
3. (fishing) To fish with a jig.
4. To sing to the tune of a jig.
5. To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ford to this entry?)

6. (mining) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.
7. To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.

Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping of jigaboo, of uncertain origin, perhaps an African/Bantu word. Alternatively, jigaboo is derived from jig (“dance”).

Noun

jig (plural jigs)

1. (US, offensive, slang, dated, ethnic slur) A black person.

References

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??/
• Rhymes: -??

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

Cebuano

Etymology

From tig-.

Noun

tig

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

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?x

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!

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French tigre (“tiger”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti?/

Noun

tig

1. tiger

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???/

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

Livonian

Etymology

Related to Estonian tige.

Adjective

tig

1. angry

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?i??/

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

Scottish Gaelic

Verb

tig

1. future of thig

Usage notes

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

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i??

Verb

tig

1. imperative of tiga.