tiggerish
/ˈtɪɡəɹɪʃ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In the crucial scene of third-degree examination the wife of the accused turns on the magistrate and berates him with tiggerish ferocity and later stabs him to his death by way of reprisal."
- "And still there is about him a hint of the ingenu; a Tiggerish quality of enthusiasm for the [Tony] Blair vision that has nothing to do with fawning loyalism."
- "If you want to kill inertia and overcome the hard part of starting up, in your own way you've got to develop Tiggerish characteristics. You need a relentless, boundless optimistic enthusiasm for what can be achieved although it is yet to happen […]"
- "Everyone likes Sam – often despite themselves – because he makes them feel likeable, because they want him to like them back, because he exudes such a Tiggerish enthusiasm for life. Quite simply, he makes life more interesting."
- "Perhaps because of these emotionally engaging techniques, [Adam] Curtis inspires cultish devotion, and not just from viewers – he has won six Baftas. A former politics tutor at Oxford, and a Tiggerish man of 55, it's surprising to learn that he began his career in TV working on the zany magazine show That's Life! […]"
Etymology
From Tigger + -ish, from the nature of the fictional character Tigger in works about Winnie-the-Pooh by the English author A. A. Milne (1882–1956).
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈtɪɡəɹɪʃ/
- British English: /ˈtɪɡəɹɪʃ/
Usage
- British usage
Inflected Forms
more Tiggerish (comparative)
most Tiggerish (superlative)