tiggy

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Noun

tiggy (uncountable)

(Australia, North Island New Zealand) The children′s game tag.
- 1996, M. J. Carr, Murder: Past Tense,, page 67:
  The teacher tried to encourage him to join in, and would tell Jamie to go and play 'tiggy' with the others.
- 2006 Fiona Doyle, "Wet Season Time," On Country: Stories of Nyrlotte, Univ. of Queensland Press, p15
  Everyone raced to catch squid hiding under floating leaves or wood, or tried to catch seahorses as well as playing tiggy in the water.
- 2009 Kirsty Anderson, TATSLINA - The Gipsy Princess, Valerie Yule, Literacy Innovations, p35
  In the day they would walk along, playing tiggy and talking, and in the evening they would swim and surf

Synonyms

(the game of tag): chasey, it, tag

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