fizgig
Pronunciation Noun
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.003
Pronunciation Noun
fizgig (plural fizgigs)
- (archaic) A flirtatious, coquettish girl, inclined#Adjective|inclined to gad#Verb|gad or gallivant about; a gig#Etymology 3|gig, a giglot, a jillflirt. [From 1520s.]
- 1596, Stephen Gosson, Pleasant Quippes for Vpstart Nevvfangled Gentlevvomen, London: Imprinted at London by Richard Iohnes, OCLC 607141005; reprinted as [John Payne Collier, editor], Pleasant Quippes for Upstart Newfangled Women. By Stephen Gosson. A Treatise on the Pride and Abuse of Women. By Charles Bansley. The First from a Copy with the Author’s Autograph; the Last from a Unique Impression by Thomas Reynalde, London: Reprinted by T. Richards, for the executors of the late C. Richards, 100, St. Martin's Lane, 1841, OCLC 952704074, page 13 ↗:
- 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.
- 1596, Stephen Gosson, Pleasant Quippes for Vpstart Nevvfangled Gentlevvomen, London: Imprinted at London by Richard Iohnes, OCLC 607141005; reprinted as [John Payne Collier, editor], Pleasant Quippes for Upstart Newfangled Women. By Stephen Gosson. A Treatise on the Pride and Abuse of Women. By Charles Bansley. The First from a Copy with the Author’s Autograph; the Last from a Unique Impression by Thomas Reynalde, London: Reprinted by T. Richards, for the executors of the late C. Richards, 100, St. Martin's Lane, 1841, OCLC 952704074, page 13 ↗:
- (archaic) Something frivolous or trivial; a gewgaw, a trinket.
- (flirtatious, coquettish girl) gig#Etymology 3|gig, giglot
- (something frivolous or trivial) folderol, gewgaw, trifle, trinket
fizgig (fizgigs, present participle fizgigging; past and past participle fizgigged)
- (archaic, intransitive) To roam around in a frivolous manner; to gad#Etymology 2|gad about, to gallivant.
- 1594, Tho[mas] Nashe, The Vnfortunate Traueller. Or, The Life of Iacke Wilton, London: Printed by T[homas] Scarlet for C[uthbert] Burby, & are to be sold at his shop adioyning to the Exchange, OCLC 84756922; republished in Stanley Wells, editor, Thomas Nashe: Selected Works (Routledge Revivals), Abingdon, Oxon.; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 2015, ISBN 978-1-138-88759-6, page 221 ↗:
- Why should I go gadding and fizgigging after firking flantado amphibologies?
- 1782, Robert Bage, Mount Henneth: A Novel, London: Printed for T. Lowndes, OCLC 974741890; republished in The Novels of Swift, Bage, and Cumberland; [...] (Ballantyne's Novelist's Library; IX), London: Published by Hurst, Robinson, and Co. 90, Cheapside, and 8, Pall Mall; printed by James Ballantyne and Company, at the Border Press, Edinburgh, 1824, OCLC 873848549, pages 147–148 ↗:
- […] I likes you because yo're none of the fiz-gigging misses, with their roles and pomatums, and tippets, and trumpery; you're a sober minded young woman, one belike as wull keep close house, and mind business: […]
- 1594, Tho[mas] Nashe, The Vnfortunate Traueller. Or, The Life of Iacke Wilton, London: Printed by T[homas] Scarlet for C[uthbert] Burby, & are to be sold at his shop adioyning to the Exchange, OCLC 84756922; republished in Stanley Wells, editor, Thomas Nashe: Selected Works (Routledge Revivals), Abingdon, Oxon.; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 2015, ISBN 978-1-138-88759-6, page 221 ↗:
fizgig (plural fizgigs)
- (archaic) A small squib-like firework that explodes with a fizzing or hissing noise.
- 2008, Salvatore Scibona, in The End, St. Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, ISBN 978-1-55597-498-5; republished London: Vintage Books, 2011, ISBN 978-0-09-955576-6, page 35 ↗:
- Half a dozen boys in linen blazers, their hair in uniform flattops, were shooting off fizgigs in his alley and paid him no mind as he pretended to use his key to unlock the alley-oop door.
- 2008, Salvatore Scibona, in The End, St. Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, ISBN 978-1-55597-498-5; republished London: Vintage Books, 2011, ISBN 978-0-09-955576-6, page 35 ↗:
fizgig (plural fizgigs)
- (fishing) A spear with a barb on the end of it, used for catch#Verb|catching fish; a type of harpoon.
fizgig (plural fizgigs)
- (Australia, slang, dated) A police informer, a stool pigeon, someone employed by police to entrap someone elseor provoke them to commit a crime.
- seeSynonyms en
fizgig (fizgigs, present participle fizgigging; past and past participle fizgigged)
- (Australia, slang, dated) To act as a police informer or agent provocateur.
- inform, grass up, snitch; See also Thesaurus:rat out
fizgig (plural fizgigs)
- (Scotland, rare) The common ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris).
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.003