English edit

Pronunciation edit

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /tɹɪɡ/, [t̠ʰɹ̠̊ɪɡ]
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪɡ

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle English trig, tryg, from Old Norse tryggr (loyal, faithful, true), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiz (loyal, faithful, true). Cognate with Old English trīewe (faithful, loyal, true). More at true.

Adjective edit

trig (comparative trigger, superlative triggest)

  1. (now chiefly dialectal) True; trusty; trustworthy; faithful.
  2. (now chiefly dialectal) Safe; secure.
  3. (now chiefly dialectal) Tight; firm; steady; sound; in good condition or health.
  4. Neat; tidy; trim; spruce; smart.
    • 1857, J. Rarey, “The Taming of Horses”, in British Quarterly Review:
      we possess of pig's skin and stirrups to keep them square and trig
    • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
      “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, [].
    • 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.
  5. (now chiefly dialectal) Active; clever.
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Noun edit

trig (plural trigs)

  1. (now chiefly dialectal) A dandy; coxcomb.

Etymology 2 edit

Clipping of trigonometry.

Noun edit

trig (countable and uncountable, plural trigs)

  1. (uncountable, informal) Trigonometry.
  2. (surveying, countable, informal) A trig point.
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Etymology 3 edit

See trigger.

Noun edit

trig (plural trigs)

  1. (UK) A stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion; a scotch; a skid.
    • 1850, Sylvester Judd, Richard Edney and the Governor's Family:
      You might as well smite that saw with your fist ; you might as well put a trig under the dam and stop it, as to practise on him
  2. The mark for players at skittles, etc.

Verb edit

trig (third-person singular simple present trigs, present participle trigging, simple past and past participle trigged)

  1. (transitive) To stop (a wheel, barrel, etc.) by placing something under it; to scotch; to skid.

Etymology 4 edit

Compare Danish trykke (to press).

Verb edit

trig (third-person singular simple present trigs, present participle trigging, simple past and past participle trigged)

  1. To fill; to stuff; to cram.
    • 1660, H[enry] More, An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness; [], London: [] J[ames] Flesher, for W[illiam] Morden [], →OCLC:
      By how much more a mans skin is full treg'd with flesh, blood and natural Spirits.

Etymology 5 edit

Clipping.

Noun edit

trig (plural trigs)

  1. (medicine, informal) Triglyceride.

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Old English edit

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Etymology edit

From Proto-Germanic *trugaz, *trugą, *truh-, *trauh-, *trawją, from Proto-Indo-European *drAuk(')- (a type of vessel). Akin to Old English trōg (trough).

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Noun edit

triġ n

  1. a wooden board with a low rim, tray

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