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Tig vs Nig - What's the difference?

tig | nig |

As nouns the difference between tig and nig

is that tig is (ireland) tag, the children's game while nig is (offensive|racial slur) nigger.

tig

English

Noun

  • (Ireland) tag, the children's game.
  • * 1916 , , 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.
  • A capacious, flat-bottomed drinking cup, generally with four handles, formerly used for passing around the table at convivial entertainment.

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    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?

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

    Noun

    (vo-noun)
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    • Declension

    (vo-decl-noun)

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