plyg

English

Alternative forms

• plig, Plyg

Etymology

Condensed pronunciation of the first two syllables of polygamist, in reference to the Mormon practice (which has been discontinued by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) of polygamy (plural marriage).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plɪɡ/

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪɡ

Noun

plyg (plural plygs)

1. (slang, offensive, often capitalized) A fundamentalist Mormon, especially one from a sect which practices polygamy.
   • 2005 December 1, Rose Beecham, Grave Silence, Bold Strokes Books Inc, →ISBN:

     Chastity was aware that many people on the outside thought Mormons were narrow, humorless, and authoritarian. […] the plygs had to be on their way to the rear of the dwelling. She tapped two of the guys and pointed into the empty room behind them.

   • 2017 October 25, Nikki Grace, Desert Leopards, One Point Six Technology Pvt Ltd, →ISBN:

     The Mormons at the Magic Valley ward didn't mention [it...] […] "You're going to marry one of the plygs and have a bunch of deformed kids," she called from the other room. She came back into Grace's room with a pair of scissors. "We're going to cut that hair. You look like a wild Indian." "No!"

Welsh

Etymology

Back-formation from plygu (“to bend; to fold, to crease”).

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /plɨːɡ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /pliːɡ/

Noun

plyg m (plural plygion)

1. bend, curve
2. fold, crease

Derived terms

• plygell (“folder”)

Adjective

plyg (feminine singular plyg, plural plyg, equative mor blyg, comparative mwy plyg, superlative mwyaf plyg)

1. bent
2. folded, creased

Derived terms

• allblyg (“extroverted”)
• decplyg (“tenfold”)
• deublyg (“twofold”)
• dyblyg
• echblyg
• hyblyg (“flexible”)
• mewnblyg (“introverted”)
• triphlyg (“threefold, triple”)
• ymhlŷg

 

Verb

plyg

1. (literary) third-person singular present indicative/future of plygu

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
plyg	blyg	mhlyg	phlyg
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.