iligant

iligant (comparative more iligant, superlative most iligant)

1. Eye dialect spelling of elegant.
   • 1906, Horatio Alger Jr., Randy of the River‎:

     I was just afther thinkin' I had nothin' but throuble, whin in comes these iligant fish."

   • 1885, Grace Greenwood, Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children‎:

     In the mean time, "Phelim," the pig, throve finely, and grew to be, as Mrs. O'Shaughnessy said, "an iligant cratur, intirely."

   • 1866, George Alfred Townsend, Campaigns of a Non-Combatant,‎:

     "Fait, sur," said Pat, "my ligs was gone intirely, wid long walkin', and I sazed the furst iligant baste I come to."

• Supposed to represent an Irish accent.

• gitalin, intagli, tailing