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trig

adj, noun, verb — 14 senses

trig

adj

UK, US /tɹɪɡ/

Etymology 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.

1

Dialectal True; trusty; trustworthy; faithful.

2

Dialectal Safe; secure.

3

Dialectal Tight; firm; steady; sound; in good condition or health.

  • Aye, the Chicopee, a fine-un, she were. Clean-built and trig-lookin’! None more fleet in ‘64 than she...2019, Robert Eggers, Max Eggers, The Lighthouse (motion picture), spoken by Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe):
4

Dialectal Neat; tidy; trim; spruce; smart.

  • we possess of pig's skin and stirrups to keep them square and trig1857, J. Rarey, “The Taming of Horses”, in British Quarterly Review:
  • “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,[…].1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
1 more example
  • 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.1973, Newsweek, April 16
5

Dialectal Active; clever.

Derived terms
trigly, trigness

trig

noun

Etymology 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.

1

Dialectal A dandy; coxcomb.

trig

verb

Etymology See trigger.

1

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

trig

noun

Etymology Clipping of trigonometry.

1

Dialectal, Informal Trigonometry.

2

Geography, Natural sciences, Surveying Dialectal, Informal A trig point.

Derived terms
trig identity, trig pillar

trig

verb

Etymology Compare Danish trykke (“to press”).

1

Dialectal To fill; to stuff; to cram.

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

trig

noun

Etymology See trigger.

1

UK, Dialectal A stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion; a scotch; a skid.

  • 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 him1850, Sylvester Judd, Richard Edney and the Governor's Family:
2

Dialectal The mark for players at skittles, etc.

trig

noun

Etymology Clipping.

1

Medicine, Sciences Dialectal, Informal Triglyceride.

trig

noun

Etymology Clipping.

1

Biology, Entomology, Natural sciences Dialectal A cricket in the family Trigonidiidae.

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