Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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verb
To solicit or receive, usually by begging; ask as alms.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, transitive
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verb
To beg, borrow; cadge.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, ambitransitive
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verb
To profit by or live on the gifts of others.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, intransitive, obsolete
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verb
To take alms.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, intransitive, obsolete
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verb
To beseech; supplicate; implore.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, obsolete, transitive
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verb
To crave; seek (a favour).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, ambitransitive
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History
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”).
