trigness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From trig + -ness. See trig (“trim, neat”).
Noun
[edit]trigness (uncountable)
- (archaic) The quality or state of being trig; smartness; neatness.
- 1853, Elisha Kent Kane, The United States Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin:
- Their spars had no man-of-war trigness.
References
[edit]- “trigness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.