sig
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "sig"
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
sig (plural sigs)
- (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”).[1]
Verb
sig (third-person singular simple present sigs, present participle sigging, simple past and past participle sigged)
- (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To good-naturedly make fun of someone; to signify.
- 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.
See also
Etymology 3
Noun
sig (plural sigs)
- (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”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Alternative forms
- zigg
Noun
sig (uncountable)
References
- “sig v.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
Further reading
- “sig, n.1”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. - “sig, n.2”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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