Taig vs Trig - What's the difference?
taig | trig |
True; trusty; trustworthy; faithful.
Safe; secure.
Tight; firm; steady; sound; in good condition or health.
Neat; tidy; trim; spruce; smart.
*(British Quarterly Review) (1845-1866)
*:To sit on a horse square and trig .
*1973 , (Newsweek) , April 16
*:The [torture] stories seemed incongruent with the men telling them – a trim, trig lot who, given a few pounds more flesh, might have stepped right out of a recruiting poster.
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*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable,.
Active; clever.
(uncountable) trigonometry.
(countable, informal) A trigonometric point.
(UK) A stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion; a scotch; a skid.
To stop (a wheel, barrel, etc.) by placing something under it; to scotch; to skid.
To fill; to stuff; to cram.
As a proper noun taig
is , anglicized as timothy.As an adjective trig is
true; trusty; trustworthy; faithful.As a noun trig is
a dandy; coxcomb or trig can be (uncountable) trigonometry or trig can be (uk) a stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion; a scotch; a skid.As a verb trig is
to stop (a wheel, barrel, etc) by placing something under it; to scotch; to skid or trig can be to fill; to stuff; to cram.trig
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) trig, tryg, (etyl) . More at (l).Adjective
(trigger)Etymology 2
Abbreviation of (trigonometry).Noun
Etymology 3
See (trigger).Noun
(en noun)- (Wright)