tiger
English
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Panthera_tigris_tigris.jpg/220px-Panthera_tigris_tigris.jpg)
Alternative forms
Etymology 1
From Middle English tygre, in part from Old English tigras (pl.), in part from Anglo-Norman tigre, both from Latin tigris, from Ancient Greek τίγρις (tígris), from Iranian (compare Avestan 𐬙𐬌𐬔𐬭𐬌 (tigri, “arrow”), 𐬙𐬌𐬖𐬭𐬀 (tiγra, “pointed”)). More at stick.
Pronunciation
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Noun
tiger (plural tigers, feminine tigress)
- Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 14, page 311:
- For with ſuch puiſſance and impetuous maine / Thoſe Champions broke on them, that forſt the fly, / Like ſcattered Sheepe, whenas the Shepherds ſwaine / A Lyon and a Tigre doth eſpye, / With greedy pace forth ruſhing from the foreſt nye.
- A male tiger.
- (heraldry) A representation of a large mythological cat, used on a coat of arms.
- 1968, Charles MacKinnon of Dunakin, The Observer's Book of Heraldry, page 69:
- The heraldic tiger is a mythical beast, quite unlike a real tiger which is described in heraldry as a Bengal tiger. The ordinary tiger has no stripes, has a horn protruding from its nose, has tusks like a boar and a tufted mane, and has a lion's tail instead of a tiger's.
- (obsolete) A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Charles Dickens to this entry?)
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XVII, The Beginnings
- The doom of Fate was, Be thou a Dandy! Have thy eye-glasses, opera-glasses, thy Long-Acre cabs with white-breeched tiger, thy yawning impassivities, pococurantisms; fix thyself in Dandyhood, undeliverable; it is thy doom.
- (South Africa, dated but still used) A leopard.
- 1907, Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, Jock of the Bushveld, Longmans 1976 ed., →ISBN, page 251:
- Jim remarked irrelevantly that tigers were 'schelms' and it was his conviction that there were a great many in the kloofs round about.
- 1907, Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, Jock of the Bushveld, Longmans 1976 ed., →ISBN, page 251:
- (US, slang) A person who is very athletic during sexual intercourse.
- 2010, Jeff Wilser, The Maxims of Manhood:
- Don't […] Tell your roommate that you heard the walls shaking all night, and it sounds like he's a real tiger in the sack.
- (figurative) A ferocious, bloodthirsty and audacious person.
- William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
- As for that heinous tiger, Tamora,
No funeral rite, nor man in mournful weeds,
No mournful bell shall ring her burial;
But throw her forth to beasts, and birds of prey.
- As for that heinous tiger, Tamora,
- William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
- (US, colloquial) A kind of growl or screech, after cheering.
- three cheers and a tiger
- A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.
- A tiger moth in the family Arctiidae.
- A tiger beetle.
- A tiger butterfly in tribe Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template., especially subtribe Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.
- A relatively small country or group of countries with a fast-growing economy.
- 2000, Jagdish Handa, Monetary Economics, Psychology Press →ISBN, page 709
- In this scenario, the growth rates are higher for the economic tigers than for the other economies.
- 2009, Fabrizio Tassinari, Why Europe Fears Its Neighbors, ABC-CLIO →ISBN, page 21
- Then came the 2008 credit turmoil and ensuing economic slump, which not only belittled the huge economic and social gains of the various Baltic and Celtic '' Tigers,'' as well as of several former communist nations of Central Europe.
- 2014, Emmanuel Akyeampong, Robert H. Bates, Nathan Nunn, James Robinson, Africa's Development in Historical Perspective, Cambridge University Press →ISBN, page 287
- Once colonial or settler rule ended, such enterprises either lost the crutches of state support or became “white elephants,” draining resources from the wider economy. This was an important factor holding back the emergence of African tigers.
- 2000, Jagdish Handa, Monetary Economics, Psychology Press →ISBN, page 709
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tiger”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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Descendants
- → Welsh: teigr
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Etymology 2
From the mascot of Princeton (a tiger), which led to early cheerleaders calling out "Tiger" at the end of a cheer for the Princeton team.
Noun
tiger (plural tigers)
- A final shouted phrase, accompanied by a jump or outstretched arms, at the end of a cheer.
- 1868, Punch: Or the London Charivari - Volume 55, page 231:
- He spoke with a very strong Scotch accent, and is by no means a graceful orator, but he produced througout a most favourable impression upon all his hearers, and especially upon the students, one of whom shouted as the speaker closed, 'Long Live PRESIDENT M'COSH!' and then proposed three cheers, which were given with a will, followed by the usual tiger and ' rocket.'
- 1941, Margaret Leech, Reveille in Washington:
- . . . every blue coat in the audience sprang to his feet, with three times three and a tiger.
- 2008, D. C. Beard, The Outdoor Handy Book: For Playground, Field, and Forest, page 413:
- One Brooklyn military company has a “tiger” composed of a provincial expression borrowed from the farmers. When drawled out by a hundred throats the phrase "I-wanter-know!" always produces a laugh.
Anagrams
Cornish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
tiger m (plural tigres or tigri)
References
Danish
Etymology
From German Tiger, from Latin tigris.
Pronunciation
Noun
tiger c (singular definite tigeren, plural indefinite tigere or tigre)
Declension
References
- “tiger” in Den Danske Ordbog
Middle Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French tigre, from Latin tigris.
Noun
tiger m
Inflection
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Descendants
Further reading
- “tiger”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “tiger”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Noun
tiger m (definite singular tigeren, indefinite plural tigere or tigre or tigrer, definite plural tigerne or tigrene)
Derived terms
References
- “tiger” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Noun
tiger m (definite singular tigeren, indefinite plural tigrar, definite plural tigrane)
Derived terms
References
- “tiger” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
tiger m (nominative plural tigras)
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
Slovene
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Panthera_tigris6.jpg/220px-Panthera_tigris6.jpg)
Etymology
Ultimately from Ancient Greek τίγρις (tígris), from Iranian (compare Avestan 𐬙𐬌𐬔𐬭𐬌 (tigri, “arrow”), 𐬙𐬌𐬖𐬭𐬀 (tiγra, “pointed”)).
Pronunciation
Noun
tígər m anim (female equivalent tīgrica)
Inflection
Masculine anim., hard o-stem | |||
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nom. sing. | tíger | ||
gen. sing. | tígra | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
tíger | tígra | tígri |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
tígra | tígrov | tígrov |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
tígru | tígroma | tígrom |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
tígra | tígra | tígre |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
tígru | tígrih | tígrih |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
tígrom | tígroma | tígri |
Derived terms
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
tiger c
- tiger (animal)
Declension
Declension of tiger | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | tiger | tigern | tigrar | tigrarna |
Genitive | tigers | tigerns | tigrars | tigrarnas |
Verb
tiger
- (deprecated template usage) present tense of tiga.
West Frisian
Etymology
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Noun
tiger c (plural tigers, diminutive tigerke)
Further reading
- “tiger”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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