trigness

noun

trigness

noun

Etymology From trig + -ness. See trig (“trim, neat”).

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Archaic The quality or state of being trig; smartness; neatness.

  • Their spars had no man-of-war trigness.1853, Elisha Kent Kane, The United States Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin:

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