Now dial. Infl. trigg-. [f. TRIG a. 3, 6; with both senses cf. TIGHT v.3]
I. 1. trans. To make trig or trim, to trim, to make tidy or neat; now often, to dress smartly or finely. Trig out, to dress or deck out. Chiefly Sc. and north. dial. Hence Trigging vbl. sb., the action of the verb; concr. finery.
1696. Song, ‘This is no my ain House,’ i. Sin’ he claimed my daddy’s place I downa bide the triggin o’t.
1724. Ramsay, ‘This is no my ain house,’ i. Mine ain house I’ll like to guide, And please me with the trigging o’t.
1793. Ritson, N. Garland (1809), 71. He rigg’d and trigg’d, and rid away.
1877. R. W. Thom, Jock o’ Knowe, 54. Beauty … shines divine when seen Trigged oot in love and charity.
1896. Kipling, Seven Seas, Rhyme Three Sealers, 62. He has rigged and trigged her with paint and spar.
1897. W. Beatty, Secretar, xxx. 243. (Fifeshire) She had gotten me into her room to see that I was trigged out as I should be.
II. 2. trans. To fill full, to stuff, cram. (Cf. to fill ‘tight.’)
1660. H. More, Myst. Godl., IV. iii. 105. By how much more a mans skin is full treg’d with flesh, blood and natural Spirits.
1771. Smollett, Humph. Cl., 15 May. O Molly! the sarvants at Bath … lite the candle at both ends. Here’s nothing but ginketting, and wasting, and thieving, and tricking, and trigging.
1790. Grose, Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2), Supp., Trig thy kite, fill thy belly.
1825. Brockett, N. C. Words, Trig, to fill, to stuff.
1828. Craven Gloss., s.v., ‘He’s trigg’d his hamper’; that is, he has filled his belly.
1905. in E. Dial. Dict., from Cumbld., Westmld., Durham, Yorksh.
