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thig.

To solicit or receive, usually by begging; ask as alms.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb
  1. To solicit or receive, usually by begging; ask as alms.

    Scotland · transitive
  2. To beg, borrow; cadge.

    Scotland · ambitransitive
  3. To profit by or live on the gifts of others.

    Scotland · intransitive · obsolete
  4. To take alms.

    Scotland · intransitive · obsolete
  5. To beseech; supplicate; implore.

    Scotland · obsolete · transitive
  6. To crave; seek (a favour).

    Scotland · ambitransitive
Where this word comes from

From Middle English thiggen, from Old English þiċġan (“to take, receive, accept; ingest; eat or drink, consume, partake of”), from Proto-West Germanic *þiggjan, from Proto-Germanic *þigjaną (“to accept, receive, beg”), from Proto-Indo-European *tek- (“to receive”). Cognate with Middle High German digen (“to beg, implore, beseech”), German digen (“to beg, beseech, take, get”), Swedish tigga (“to beg, mooch”), Icelandic þiggja (“to get, receive, accept”).

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