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tiggy en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (Australia, qualifier:North Island New Zealand, uncountable) The children′s game tag.
    • Everyone raced to catch squid hiding under floating leaves or wood, or tried to catch seahorses as well as playing tiggy in the water. 2006, Fiona Doyle, “Wet Season Time”, in On Country: Stories of Nyrlotte, Univ. of Queensland Press, page 15:
    • In the day they would walk along, playing tiggy and talking, and in the evening they would swim and surf 2009, Kirsty Anderson, TATSLINA - The Gipsy Princess, Valerie Yule, Literacy Innovations, page 35:
    • The teacher tried to encourage him to join in, and would tell Jamie to go and play 'tiggy' with the others. 1996, M. J. Carr, Murder: Past Tense,, page 67:

Synonyms

it (the game of tag) · chasey (the game of tag) · tag (the game of tag)