fizgig
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fizgig¹
- /ˈfɪzɡɪɡ/ UK
- /ˈfɪzˌɡɪɡ/ US
Where it comes from
From Middle English gig (“a frivolous woman”); the first element of the word may be from fise (“an instance of flatulence”), from fist (“an act of breaking wind”).
noun fizgigs
- A flirtatious, coquettish girl, inclined to gad or gallivant about; a gig, a giglot, a jillflirt. You thinke (perhaps) to win great fame / by uncouth sutes and fashions wilde: / All such as know you thinke the same, / but in ech kind you are beguilde; / For when you looke for praises sound; / Then are you for light fisgiggs crownde.
- Something frivolous or trivial; a gewgaw, a trinket. "[…] Lillie did the best she could, poor girl! but I could see all the time she was worrying about her new fizgigs and folderols in the house.[…]" / "[…] Young mistresses, you see, have nerves all over their house at first. They tremble at every dent in their furniture, and wink when you come near i
verb fizgigs · fizgigging · fizgigged
- To roam around in a frivolous manner; to gad about, to gallivant. Why should I go gadding and fizgigging after firking flantado amphibologies?
fizgig²
- /ˈfɪzɡɪɡ/ UK
- /ˈfɪzˌɡɪɡ/ US
Where it comes from
From fizz + gig (“a whirling thing”).
noun fizgigs · fizzgig
- A small squib-like firework that explodes with a fizzing or hissing noise. What the Chevalier [Mortram] is about to do no one is supposed to know but himself. In the impenetrable breast of the artist lies the determination […] whether a Devil-among-the-Tailors shall end his freaks with a grand explosion of flower-pots and fizzgigs; […] or a fiery dragon to dart and wriggle
fizgig³
- /ˈfɪzɡɪɡ/ UK
- /ˈfɪzˌɡɪɡ/ US
Where it comes from
Possibly from Spanish fisga (“harpoon”).
noun fizgigs
- Archaic form of fishgig At day break we were cloſe by the Peninſule Mozambique (part of Quiloa) inhabited by Negroes; abundant in Gold, Silver, and Ambergreece; […] [A]n Armado of Dolphins aſſaulted us; and ſuch we ſaulted as we could intice to taſte our hooks or fiſſgiggs: […]
fizgig⁴
- /ˈfɪzɡɪɡ/ UK
- /ˈfɪzˌɡɪɡ/ US
Where it comes from
Origin unknown.
noun fizgigs · fizzgig
-
A police informer, a stool pigeon, someone employed by police to entrap someone else or provoke them to commit a crime.
In order to make the clause perfect the Minister might add— / All "spotters," spies, fizgigs, and informers will be properly rewarded, and duly promoted, and guaranteed against publicity.
Similar: informant
verb fizgigs · fizgigging · fizgigged · fizzgig
- To act as a police informer or agent provocateur. The employment of "fiz-gigs" – men engaged by detectives to tempt discharged prisoners to commit specified […] The report of Mr. Francis Longmore and his colleagues may indeed have tended to diminish "fiz-gigging" […]
fizgig⁵
- /ˈfɪzɡɪɡ/ UK
- /ˈfɪzˌɡɪɡ/ US
Where it comes from
Origin unknown.
noun fizgigs
- common ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris, syn. Senecio jacobaea). S[enecio] jacobæa. Ragwort: Yellow-weed: Yellow elshinders, and in the Merse [Berwickshire], Fizz-gigs.—A common weed in old pastures and by road-sides.
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title = {fizgig},
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