Hither vs Tigger - What's the difference?
hither | tigger |
(literary, or, archaic) To this place, to here.
over here
(archaic) On this side; the nearer.
* 1954', The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in living creatures on the '''hither side of good and evil. — Aldous Huxley, ''The Doors of Perception (Chatto & Windus 1954, p. 30)
An overly enthusiastic or energetic person, often characterized by bouncing.
*1978 , John Elsom and Nicholas Tomalin, The History of the National Theatre , Cape, ISBN 0224013408, pg. 257:
*:Whereas Olivier, particularly when first nights approached in which he was appearing, invited protectiveness from those around him, Hall was sometimes like a Tigger whom others wanted to unbounce.
*1995 , Mark Scott, Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations'', volume 26 of ''Shakespearean Criticism , Ed. Michael Magoulias, Gale Research Co., ISBN 0810389460, pg. 291:
*:Never again, I trust, will I hear the play's first word ("If") so underlined as if there is philosophically every reason to doubt that music be the food of love, and never again, I trust, will I be led to find myself thinking in the first scene of Orsino as an understudy rehearsing King Lear in his opening scene, or as a Tigger in an absolute frenzy to be even more bouncy than usual.
*1999 , Thisbe Nissen, Out of the girls' room and into the night , University of Iowa Press, ISBN 0877456917, pg. 176:
*:He was like a Tigger : he didn't walk; he bounced. He pissed some people off, too, with his lackadaisical, what's-a-schedule? unreliable ways.
As an adverb hither
is to this place, to here.As an adjective hither
is on this side; the nearer.As a noun Tigger is
an overly enthusiastic or energetic person, often characterized by bouncing.hither
English
Adverb
(-)- He went hither and thither.