sig

• enPR: sĭg, IPA^(key): /sɪɡ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɪɡ
• Homophone: cig

Clipping of signature.

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.

Clipping of signify (“to boast, brag, insult”).[1]

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

   • 1969 September, Carolyn M[arie] Rodgers, “Black Poetry—Where It's At”, in Negro Digest, volume XVIII, number 11, Chicago, I.L.: Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., →OCLC, page 16:

     And it is a matter of pride. No Black person wants to be "sigged" about or capped all over.

   • 2005, Kermit Ernest Campbell, Gettin' Our Groove On: Rhetoric, Language, and Literacy for the Hip Hop Generation, Detroit, M.I.: Wayne State University Press, →ISBN, page 29:

     Clearly, signifying ain't lost a beat on the bumpy ride from Africa to America. In fact, it seem like brothas been sigging since they stepped off the boat.

   • 2010, Ronald L. Jackson II, editor, Encyclopedia of Identity, Thousand Oaks, C.A.: SAGE Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 730, column 1:

     Those siggin' are also master wordsmiths. They have a variety of concepts to choose from in their rhetorical tool bags.

Clipping of sigma.

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.

From Middle English sige. Cognate with Middle Dutch seic, seike, Middle Low German seyche. Related also to sink (“to fall”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• zigg

sig (uncountable)

1. (UK, dialectal, dated) Urine.

• “sig, n.¹”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “sig, n.²”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

• GIS, GIs, GSI, IGS, IGs, Igs, gi's, gis, igs

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

• IPA^(key): /saj/, [sɑj]
• Rhymes: -aj
• Rhymes: -iːˀ

sig

1. (reflexive) third-person pronoun

   Hunden slikkede sig ren.

   The dog licked itself clean.

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

See sige.

• IPA^(key): /siː/, [siːˀ]

sig

1. imperative of sige

sig

1. imperative singular of siga

• IPA^(key): /sɪːɣ/
• Rhymes: -ɪːɣ

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

• (prolapse): framfall

• jarðsig
• sig í bjarg (rappeling down a cliff face)

• síga

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

• sik (obsolete)

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.

sig

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

• IPA^(key): /siːj/

sīġ

1. Alternative form of sīe

sig

1. Romanization of 𒋝 (sig)

• sej (strongly colloquial)

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

• IPA^(key): /sɛj/
• (Scania) IPA^(key): /saj/
• Homophones: sej, säg
• Rhymes: -ɛj, -aj

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?

• sig själv sg
• sig själva pl

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

• IPA^(key): [sɪ̀k]

sig

1. scar

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;