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KatieMo | 15:28 Sat 01st Apr 2017 | Crosswords
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Blake's bright burner.

Five letters - Tiger or Tyger?

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tyger image: http://cf.ydcdn.net/1.0.1.69/images/dictionaries/Wiktionary-logo.png Noun (plural tygers) (obsolete) A tiger. Origin From Middle English tigre, from Old English tīgras (plural) and influenced by Old French tigre, both, from Latin tigris, from Ancient Greek τίγρις (tigris), possibly of Iranian origin. Read more at...
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/43687
15:29 Sat 01st Apr 2017
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TYGER
15:29 Sat 01st Apr 2017
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Tiger, tiger burning bright - from Blake's poem
15:30 Sat 01st Apr 2017
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Oh boy - red face here! ;))
15:31 Sat 01st Apr 2017
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tyger

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Noun

(plural tygers)

(obsolete) A tiger.

Origin

From Middle English tigre, from Old English tīgras (plural) and influenced by Old French tigre, both, from Latin tigris, from Ancient Greek τίγρις (tigris), possibly of Iranian origin.

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15:31 Sat 01st Apr 2017
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I like the old name for a Giraffe too - Camelopard.
15:33 Sat 01st Apr 2017

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