# trig
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK, US) IPA: /tɹɪɡ/, [t̠ʰɹ̠̊ɪɡ]
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪɡ

### Etymology 1

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

#### Adjective

trig (comparative trigger, superlative triggest) (now chiefly dialectal)
* True; trusty; trustworthy; faithful.
* Safe; secure.
* 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...
* 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.
* Active; clever.

##### Translations
#### Noun

trig (plural trigs)
* (now chiefly dialectal) A dandy; coxcomb.

### Etymology 2

Clipping of trigonometry.

#### Noun

trig (countable and uncountable, plural trigs)
* (uncountable, informal) Trigonometry.
* (surveying, countable, informal) A trig point.

##### Derived terms

* trig identity
* trig pillar

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

See trigger.

#### Noun

trig (plural trigs)
* (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
* The mark for players at skittles, etc.

#### Verb

trig (third-person singular simple present trigs, present participle trigging, simple past and past participle trigged)
* (transitive) To stop (a wheel, barrel, etc.) by placing something under it; to scotch; to skid.

### Etymology 4

Compare Danish trykke (“to press”).

#### Verb

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

### Etymology 5

Clipping.

#### Noun

trig (plural trigs)
* (medicine, informal) Triglyceride.

### References

* “trig”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* Grit, girt, grit

## Old English
### Alternative forms

* treġ

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /trij/

### Noun

triġ n
* a wooden board with a low rim, tray

#### Declension

Strong a-stem:

#### Synonyms

* trēġ
* trog