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Word entry · 4 letters

trig

Best crossword clue

"Neat and trim"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /tɹɪɡ/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted girtStarts with TEnds with G1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. neat and smart in appearance

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • Aye, the Chicopee, a fine-un, she were. Clean-built and trig-lookin’! None more fleet in ‘64 than she...
  • we possess of pig's skin and stirrups to keep them square and trig
  • 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.

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