fizgig
/ˈfɪzˌɡɪɡ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A flirtatious, coquettish girl, inclined to gad or gallivant about; a gig, a giglot, a jillflirt.
Archaic
noun
A police informer, a stool pigeon, someone employed by police to entrap someone else or provoke them to commit a crime.
Australian usage; Dated; Slang
noun
common ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris, syn. Senecio jacobaea).
Example Sentences
- "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."
- ""[…] 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 it, as if you were going to hit it a blow; but that wears off in time, and they learn to take it easy.""
- "Mr. Leslie Stephen's style is exactly the opposite to Canon [Charles] Kingsley's. We have no fizgigs of fine writing for fine writing's sake, or for the sake of anything else. God is not adjured nor complimented in every other page. Christianity and muscles find their proper places. It is a perfect relief after the flabby, effeminate rhetoric with which we are now deluged, to read Mr. Leslie Stephen's terse and masculine style."
- "Tawdry has been applied to some of the pianoforte "fizgigs" that [Franz] Liszt attached to pieces he adapted from themes by others; that may or may not be a justifiable designation, but we look in vain for any such treatment in the Dead March."
- "Why should I go gadding and fizgigging after firking flantado amphibologies?"
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfɪzˌɡɪɡ/
- British English: /ˈfɪzɡɪɡ/