1331. Chester Plea Roll, 4 & 5 Edw. III., m. 15 (P.R.O.). Bedelli non debent habere offringes thiggynges fulcenale nec aliquod aliud proficuum nisi tantummodo puturam de illis certis tenementis que vocantur warelondes.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 490/2. Thyggynge, or beggynge, mendicacio.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, VIII. Prol. 74. Scho … waistis hir tym In thiggin, as it thrift war.
1827. J. Anderson, St. Soc. & Knowl. in Highlands, 73, note. Sometimes the young people [about to be married] made the round of their relatives and neighbours to try fortune’s smiles. This was called thigging.
1872. Michie, Deeside T., xv. 132. The bridegroom gaed a thiggan’ among the friends, an got presents o’ corn an’ ither gear in token o’ their well wishes.
So Thigging ppl. a., that thigs.
a. 1300. E. E. Psalter xxxix. 18 [xl. 17]. And thiggand and pouer am I [Wyclif, I forsothe a beggere am and pore].
