Dialectal variant of tick, from Middle English ticken, tiken. More at tick.
Meanings
(dialectal) A light touch; a tap or pat.
(Ireland, Scotland, qualifier:England apart from the south) The children's game of tag.
One evening when playing tig she had put her hands over his eyes: long and white and thin and cold and soft. 1916, James Joyce, chapter I, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 36:
(historical) A capacious, flat-bottomed drinking cup, generally with four handles, formerly used for passing around the table at convivial entertainment.