Swig vs Sig - What's the difference?
swig | sig |
To drink (usually by gulping or in a greedy or unrefined manner); to quaff.
(obsolete) To suck.
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(nautical) To take up the last bit of slack in rigging by taking a single turn around a cleat, then hauling on the line above and below the cleat while keeping tension on the line (also: sweating )
(en noun), (Appalachian)
A long draught from a drink.
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(nautical) A tackle with ropes which are not parallel.
Warm beer flavoured with spices, lemon, etc.
(informal) A signature, usually when used as a digital signature on emails.
* 1995 , Vince Emery, How to grow your business on the Internet
(UK, dialectal) Urine.
As nouns the difference between swig and sig
is that swig is a long draught from a drink while sig is a special interest group; a group formed to discuss a particular topic or issue.As a verb swig
is to drink (usually by gulping or in a greedy or unrefined manner); to quaff.swig
English
Verb
(swigg)- That sailor can swig whisky with the best of 'em.
- The lambkins swig the teat.
Synonyms
* (to drink) chug, gulp, guzzle, quaff * See alsoNoun
- And he took the last swig out of the pint.
- (Marryat)
Synonyms
* (a drink) draught, sip * See alsoAnagrams
* Appalachian Englishsig
English
Etymology 1
A shortened form of (m).Noun
(en noun)- 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.