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fizgig

noun
/ˈfɪzɡɪɡ/UK/ˈfɪzˌɡɪɡ/US

Etymology

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”).

  1. derived from gig

Definitions

  1. A flirtatious, coquettish girl, inclined to gad or gallivant about

    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.
    • I don't see why Gertrude is not young enough and strong enough to take care of her child herself, without having a fine madman of a nurse to help her. If she cannot it is time she is learned;—anyway, I will keep no such fizgigs about here.

  2. Something frivolous or trivial

    Something frivolous or trivial; a gewgaw, a trinket.

  3. To roam around in a frivolous manner

    To roam around in a frivolous manner; to gad about, to gallivant.

    • Why should I go gadding and fizgigging after firking flantado amphibologies?
    • […] 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: […]
    • The old man's backside fizgigged with laughter. "See ya, kid!" he called as Dave pedaled away.
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. A small squib-like firework that explodes with a fizzing or hissing noise.

    2. A spear with a barb on the end of it, used for catching fish, frogs, or other small…

      A spear with a barb on the end of it, used for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals; a type of harpoon.

      • FIZGIG, ſ[ubſtantive] [a ſort of dart or harpoon with which ſeamen ſtrike fiſh.] Sorte de harpon.

    3. A police informer, a stool pigeon, someone employed by police to entrap someone else or…

      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.
      • "Fizgigs?" Wood asks. / "Pimps. A fizgig is an agent provocateur – he gets you to do something you shouldn't do and that will hang you in court. A pimp gets you to do something innocuous that will still hang you.[…]"
      • A normal feller going about his business will give ya the once over without a squirm, but not this joker. Either he was a fizgig, or he was there to tip off someone about Jack's movements – Soupy, presumably.

    4. 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" […]
      • Easy, Frank. I don't want any terror. Just a line on Catchpole—who he's fizzgigging for at the moment. What might be going on.

    5. 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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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA