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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Clipping of signature.

Noun

sig (plural sigs)

  1. (Internet, informal) A signature, especially one on emails or newsgroup postings.
    • 1995, Vince Emery, How to grow your business on the Internet:
      Your sig should ideally be four or five lines long, six or seven at the maximum. Since it will be repeated on hundreds of messages, a long signature wastes bandwidth and is therefore rude.
    • 2004, Brad Hill, Building Your Business with Google For Dummies, page 48:
      Posting good content is the best way to get people clicking your sig link.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Clipping of signify (to boast, brag, insult).

Verb

sig (third-person singular simple present sigs, present participle sigging, simple past and past participle sigged)

  1. (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To good-naturedly make fun of someone; to signify.
    Synonyms: banter, (AAVE) jone
See also

Etymology 3

Clipping of sigma.

Noun

sig (plural sigs)

  1. (university slang) Sigma (in the names of Greek-letter organizations).
    Sig Chi; Kappa Sig; Sig Nu
    • 2014 April 17, Allie Jones, “After Years of Bad Press, the Great Fraternity Crackdown Is Here”, in The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-25:
      Outright banning fraternities, however, is a tough move for a university president to make. Greek alums tend to be big donors. [Phil] Hanlon has shied away from making his reform all Greek life, no doubt to avoid the ire of deep-pocketed former Sig Chis.
    • 2014 May 29, Prachi Gupta, “Your fraternity email chain will come back to haunt you”, in Salon.com, archived from the original on 2023-12-13:
      Here are 6 of the most cartoonishly sexist, aggressive, and straight-up nuts fraternity and sorority email chains ever released to the public. Let them be a warning to young Kappa Sigs everywhere.
    • 2022 October 6, Eliza Josephson, “POV: You're dancing at a Yale Frat, or not”, in Yale Daily News, archived from the original on 2022-10-13:
      My time at Sig Nu was quite brief, unfortunately, so I'll do my best with the data I gathered.
Derived terms

Etymology 4

From Middle English sige. Cognate with Middle Dutch seic, seike, Middle Low German seyche. Related also to sink (to fall).

Alternative forms

Noun

sig (uncountable)

  1. (UK, dialectal, dated) Urine.

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Anagrams

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse sik, from Proto-Germanic *sik.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

sig

  1. (reflexive) third-person pronoun
    Hunden slikkede sig ren.
    The dog licked itself clean.
Usage notes

For all other persons (both singular and plural) the personal accusative pronoun is used.

See also

Etymology 2

See sige.

Pronunciation

Verb

sig

  1. imperative of sige

Faroese

Verb

sig

  1. imperative singular of siga

Icelandic

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

sig n (genitive singular sigs, nominative plural sig)

  1. subsidence, (a sinking of something to a lower level)
  2. prolapse, a moving out of place, especially a protrusion of an internal organ
Declension
Synonyms
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

From Old Norse sik, from Proto-Germanic *sik.

Alternative forms

Pronoun

sig

  1. (reflexive) accusative third person reflexive pronoun meaning oneself (and also depending on context himself, herself, itself and themselves)
    Hann drap sig.
    He killed himself.
    Hún drap sig.
    She killed herself.
Declension
Derived terms

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

sig

  1. inflection of siga:
    1. present
    2. imperative

Old English

Pronunciation

Verb

sīġ

  1. Alternative form of sīe

Sumerian

Romanization

sig

  1. Romanization of 𒋝 (sig)

Swedish

Alternative forms

  • sej (strongly colloquial)

Etymology

From Old Norse sik, from Proto-Germanic *sek, from Proto-Indo-European *se.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

sig

  1. reflexive case of han, hon, den, det, de or man; compare himself, herself, itself, themselves, oneself
    Antagligen skulle han vilja lära sig jonglera.
    Presumably he would like to learn how to juggle.
    Hon lärde sig själv.
    She taught herself.
    Skar de sig på knivarna?
    Did they cut themselves on the knives?

Declension

See also

Western Apache

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *-x̯ɑ̓t. Cognates include Navajo sid, Mescalero sįh.

Pronunciation

Noun

sig

  1. scar

Usage notes

The form sig in the White Mountain variety; sid occurs in White Mountain and Dilzhe’eh (Tonto); shig occurs in Cibecue; shid occurs in Dilzhe’eh and San Carlos varieties;