trig

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /tɹɪɡ/
• Rhymes: -ɪɡ

From Middle English trig, tryg, from Old Norse tryggr (“loyal, faithful, true”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiz (“loyal, faithful, true”). Cognate with Old English trēowe (“faithful, loyal, true”). More at true.

trig (comparative trigger, superlative triggest)

1. (now chiefly dialectal) True; trusty; trustworthy; faithful.
2. (now chiefly dialectal) Safe; secure.
3. (now chiefly dialectal) Tight; firm; steady; sound; in good condition or health.
4. Neat; tidy; trim; spruce; smart.
   • (Can we date this quote?) British Quarterly Review

     To sit on a horse square and trig.

   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:

     “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. (now chiefly dialectal) Active; clever.

trig (plural trigs)

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

Abbreviation of trigonometry.

trig (countable and uncountable, plural trigs)

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

See trigger.

trig (plural trigs)

1. (Britain) A stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion; a scotch; a skid.

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2. The mark for players at skittles, etc.

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.

Compare Danish trykke (“to press”).

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

1. To fill; to stuff; to cram.

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Clipping.

trig (plural trigs)

1. (medicine, informal) triglyceride

• trig in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

• Grit, girt, grit

• treġ

From Proto-Germanic *trugaz, *trugą, *truh-, *trauh-, *trawją, from Proto-Indo-European *drAuk(')- (“a type of vessel”). Akin to Old English trōg (“trough”).

• IPA^(key): /tij/

triġ n

1. a wooden board with a low rim, tray.

• trēġ
• trog