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taig

/teɪɡ/noun

taig is a derogatory noun meaning “An Irish Catholic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-A-I-G, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of taig is taigs.

What does taig mean?

noun

  1. 1

    ScotlandUKderogatoryAn Irish Catholic.

noun

as Taig
  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of taig (“Roman Catholic”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce taig?

  • /teɪɡ/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of taig

  • taigs plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is taig?

Taig appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does taig come from?

From the Irish forename Tadhg (anglicised as Taig or Teague), which was historically one of the commonest names in Ireland. Compare paddy, mick, tim.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).