Tiggy vs Wiggy - What's the difference?
tiggy | wiggy |
(Australia, New Zealand, North Island) The children?s game tag.
* 1996 M. J. Carr, Murder: Past Tense, p67
* 2006 Fiona Doyle, "Wet Season Time," On Country: Stories of Nyrlotte, Univ. of Queensland Press, p15
* 2009 Kirsty Anderson, TATSLINA - The Gipsy Princess, Valerie Yule, Literacy Innovations, p35
Crazy.
Uninhibited.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 13, author=Randy Kennedy, title=Art World Luminaries Recall Marcia Tucker, work=New York Times
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Wiglike.
As a noun tiggy
is the children′s game tag.As an adjective wiggy is
crazy.tiggy
English
Noun
(-)- The teacher tried to encourage him to join in, and would tell Jamie to go and play 'tiggy' with the others.
- Everyone raced to catch squid hiding under floating leaves or wood, or tried to catch seahorses as well as playing tiggy in the water.
- 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, tagwiggy
English
Etymology 1
From wig outAdjective
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