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Sig vs Nig - What's the difference?

sig | nig |

As nouns the difference between sig and nig

is that sig is a special interest group; a group formed to discuss a particular topic or issue while nig is (offensive|racial slur) nigger.

sig

English

Etymology 1

A shortened form of (m).

Noun

(en noun)
  • (informal) A signature, usually when used as a digital signature on emails.
  • * 1995 , Vince Emery, How to grow your business on the Internet
    • Your sig should ideally be four or five lines long, six or seven at the maximum. Since it will be repeated on hundreds of messages, a long signature wastes bandwidth and is therefore rude.
    Derived terms
    * sigblock * sigfile * siggy * sigless

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . Compare West Frisian sege, Dutch zege, German Sieg, Danish sejr, Swedish seger.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A victory, triumph

    • Etymology 3

    Related to .

    Noun

    (-)
  • (UK, dialectal) Urine.

    • Anagrams

    * English three-letter words ----

    nig

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (offensive, racial slur) nigger
  • * 1959 , Don Robertson, The three days
    • He always thought one step ahead of the nigs .
  • * 1961 , Robert Hale Strong, A Yankee private's Civil War
    • In a field near the house was a nigger working a poor old broken-down mule and another nigger sowing wheat. When we came up, both nigs quit work and stared at us.
  • * 1967 , Frank Hercules, I want a black doll
    • What part did she play in your marrying a nig — a black man — nig, nig — Negro?

    Anagrams

    * English clippings ---- ==Volapük==

    Noun

    (vo-noun)
  • ink

    • Declension

    (vo-decl-noun)

    Derived terms

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