trigly meaning (informal): definition, etymology and quotations

trigly

noun

Etymology Clipping of tri- + glycol.

Informal Triethylene glycol dichloride.

The solubility of plutonium(IV) in trigly was found to be 70 mg/ml.1964, Nuclear Science Abstracts, page 3460:
The original process had involved a solvent extraction step with trigly followed by a precipitation and centrifuging stage for secondary purification.1966, Wilfrid Eggleston, Canada's Nuclear Story, page 203:

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With trigly, I was almost certain to have a winner; I dreamed of it at night, and then, late one evening, alone at the laboratory, I carried out some tests and measurements.1990, Bertrand Goldschmidt, Atomic Rivals, page 268:

adv

Etymology From trig + -ly.

In a trig manner; neatly; smartly.

Ah! there in deepest solitude Sometimes I have wild nature wooed, When nought of living thing was nigh Except the Water-wag-tail shy, By nature's hand so trigly dight In speckled feathers, black and white, Which flew before from stone to stone, And hopped and bobbed thereupon;1845, Thomas Lamb, The Bridal of Lord Douglas, page 7:
Meeting him one day when trigly dressed, the doctor broke out with, “Joe, can you tell me the difference between you and the devil? ”1876, Centenary Memorial of the Planting and Growth of Presbyterianism in Western Pennsylvania and Parts Adjacent, page 32:

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Coralie was the delight of the audience, who clasped in fancy that pretty waist so trigly tightened in her basque, or followed with their eyes the undulations of the skirt as it betrayed every movement of the hips.1896, Honoré de Balzac, A great man of the provinces in Paris, page 189:
His head was still fine and trigly mustached, although grizzled, with the square bold cut of the man of adventure, tempered by the painter's considering eye.1997, Rose Cecil O'Neill, Miriam Forman-Brunell, The Story of Rose O'Neill: An Autobiography, page 83: