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語源 1

From 中期英語 trig, tryg, from Old Norse tryggr (“loyal, faithful, true”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiz (“loyal, faithful, true”). Cognate with 古期英語 trīewe (“faithful, loyal, true”). More at true.

形容詞

trig (comparative trigger, superlative triggest) (now chiefly dialectal)

1. True; trusty; trustworthy; faithful.
2. Safe; secure.
3. Tight; firm; steady; sound; in good condition or health.
   • 2019, Robert Eggers, Max Eggers, The Lighthouse (motion picture), spoken by Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe):

     Aye, the Chicopee, a fine-un, she were. Clean-built and trig-lookin’! None more fleet in ‘64 than she...

4. Neat; tidy; trim; spruce; smart.
   • 1857, J. Rarey, “The Taming of Horses”, in British Quarterly Review:

     we possess of pig's skin and stirrups to keep them square and trig

   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     “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, […].

   • 1973, Newsweek, April 16

     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.

5. Active; clever.

名詞

trig (plural trigs)

1. (now chiefly dialectal) A dandy; coxcomb.

語源 2

Clipping of trigonometry.

名詞

trig (countable and uncountable, plural trigs)

1. (uncountable, informal) Trigonometry.
2. (surveying, countable, informal) A trig point.

派生語

語源 3

See trigger.

名詞

trig (plural trigs)

1. (UK) A stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion; a scotch; a skid.
   • 1850, Sylvester Judd, Richard Edney and the Governor's Family:

     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 him

2. The mark for players at skittles, etc.

動詞

trig (third-person singular simple present trigs, present participle trigging, simple past and past participle trigged)

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

語源 4

Compare Danish trykke (“to press”).

動詞

trig (third-person singular simple present trigs, present participle trigging, simple past and past participle trigged)

1. To fill; to stuff; to cram.
   • 1660, H[enry] More, An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness; […], London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for W[illiam] Morden […], →OCLC:

     By how much more a mans skin is full treg'd with flesh, blood and natural Spirits.

語源 5

Clipping.

名詞

trig (plural trigs)

1. (medicine, informal) Triglyceride.

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “trig”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

語源 6

Clipping.

名詞

trig (plural trigs)

1. (entomology) A cricket in the family Trigonidiidae.

アナグラム

• Grit, girt, grit

名詞

trīġ n

1. alternative form of *trīeġ (“tray”)

語形変化

Strong a-stem: