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Tiggy vs Wiggy - What's the difference?

tiggy | wiggy |

As a noun tiggy

is the children′s game tag.

As an adjective wiggy is

crazy.

tiggy

English

Noun

(-)
  • (Australia, New Zealand, North Island) The children?s game tag.
  • * 1996 M. J. Carr, Murder: Past Tense, p67
  • The teacher tried to encourage him to join in, and would tell Jamie to go and play 'tiggy' with the others.
  • * 2006 Fiona Doyle, "Wet Season Time," On Country: Stories of Nyrlotte, Univ. of Queensland Press, p15
  • Everyone raced to catch squid hiding under floating leaves or wood, or tried to catch seahorses as well as playing tiggy in the water.
  • * 2009 Kirsty Anderson, TATSLINA - The Gipsy Princess, Valerie Yule, Literacy Innovations, p35
  • In the day they would walk along, playing tiggy and talking, and in the evening they would swim and surf

    Synonyms

    * (the game of tag) chasey, it, tag

    wiggy

    English

    Etymology 1

    From wig out

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Crazy.
  • Uninhibited.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 13, author=Randy Kennedy, title=Art World Luminaries Recall Marcia Tucker, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=“I thought I was pretty wiggy,” Mr. Baldessari said, “but she was wiggier than I was.”}}

    Etymology 2

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Wiglike.