Tig?

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LingDiLong · 18/01/2013 21:00

Where does this girl's name come from? Is it short for something? My daughter loves Woolly and Tig on Cbeebies and it makes me wonder every time I watch it. The family in it are Scottish...is it a gaelic/scottish name?

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TheOriginalSteamingNit · 19/01/2013 21:16

Have known a Tiggy who was tabitha...

Beamur · 19/01/2013 21:18

I know a little girl called Tiger. Kid you not.

jaide · 19/01/2013 21:20

My parents and other family members call me tiggy as I was a big baby. Came from tiggy lumps.
I'm now 40 and don't mind being called tiggy, althoough sometimes have to explain why.

LILMSCOATESNME · 19/03/2013 08:25

Tig in the program's real name is Betsy but I thought maybe they took Taggart (her real father who is also plays her dad on the show is Taggart) and as a 'show biz' joke changed it to Tig for her. FYI her real aunt plays her mom and her big sister is her 'narrator'

tinkybaby · 14/12/2013 13:45

Tig is a varient of Tyr. As in the Norse God.

Theonlyoneiknow · 14/12/2013 13:50

The Tigs I know are nn for Tegan

ItStartedWithAKiss241 · 22/12/2013 21:34

This thread answered alot of long standing Woolly and Tig debates between OH and I! X

Skogkat · 22/12/2013 21:52

ItStarted DP and I have had MANY arguments over the name Tig and also about Topsy

PerkyPenguin · 26/12/2013 22:02

I know a Tigerlilly called Tiga or Tiger for short.
Tegan could become Tig

lljkk · 26/12/2013 22:03

Tegan becomes Tiggy, too.

WhiteHairReally · 26/12/2013 23:04

The Tiggy I knew as a child was nicknamed that as she used to growl like a tiger in her playpen. Not sure if she paced as well.

NigellasDealer · 26/12/2013 23:08

ooh i love the name Antigone - imagine if your surname was Tigglesworth though?
just one thing, wasn't Antigone the mother of Oedipus?

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