Definizione monolingua

tiger

tiger

1. present tense of tiga.

tiger (plural tigers)

1. Panthera tigris, a large carnivorous animal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
2. A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XVII, The Beginnings

     The doom of Fate was, Be thou a Dandy! Have thy eye-glasses, opera-glasses, thy Long-Acre cabs with white-breeched tiger, thy yawning impassivities, pococurantisms; fix thyself in Dandyhood, undeliverable; it is thy doom.

3. (South Africa, dated but still used) A leopard.
   • 1907, Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, Jock of the Bushveld, Longmans 1976 ed., ISBN 0582161231, page 251:

     Jim remarked irrelevantly that tigers were schelms and it was his conviction that there were a great many in the kloofs round about.

4. (US, slang) A person who is very athletic during intercourse.

Definizione dizionario tiger

	tigre
	The mammal '''Panthera tigris'''
	A large carnivorous animal (Panthera tigris) of the cat family indigenous to Asia.

Panthera tigris

panthera tigris

Altri significati:

(South African, dated but still used) A leopard.

Panthera tigris, a large carnivorous animal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.

Tiger (cryptography)

A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress

tiger (feline, Panthera tigris)

(US, slang) A person who is very athletic during intercourse.