| 释义 |
▪ I. tiggy, n.1 Chiefly north. dial.|ˈtɪgɪ|
[f. tig n.1 + -y6.]
The children's game ‘tig’; the player who is ‘it’. Also tiggy (or tiggery) touchwood, a version of the game in which players can only be caught when they are not touching a tree, piece of wood, etc. (see touch v. 29 a).
1845in I. & P. Opie Children's Games (1969) i. 23 The boy he has touched is made ‘tiggy’ until he can pay the compliment to some other boy. 1865W. S. Banks List Provincial Words Wakefield 74 Tiggery touch wood, a children's game, wherein one who ‘has the tiggs’ tries to ‘tigg’ some other who is not touching wood or does not claim bail or ‘barley’. 1888S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield 260 Tiggy-touchwood,..one of them, who is called Tiggy, stands out, and each of the other children takes hold of or touches a piece of wood... One of the children then leaves his ‘wood’, and runs across the play-ground, [etc.]. 1893–4R. O. Heslop Northumb. Words II. 733 Tiggy, the game of tig. 1907J. Donnan Hameland 3 Whiles we played at..‘tiggy touchwud’. 1983P. Theroux Kingdom by Sea xxiv. 282 So I stayed the night in Cleethorpes and watched filthy children playing ‘Tiggy’.
▪ II. tiggy|ˈtɪgɪ|
[Perh. rel. to dial. tig little pig (Eng. Dial. Dict.)]
= hedgehog 1.
[1905B. Potter Tale Mrs. Tiggy-winkle 85 Mrs. Tiggy-winkle was nothing but a Hedgehog!] 1938T. H. White Sword in Stone xxi. 303 Us be'nt no common tiggy Mëaster, for to be munched and mumbled. |
