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noun
A flirtatious, coquettish girl, inclined to gad or gallivant about; a gig, a giglot, a jillflirt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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noun
Something frivolous or trivial; a gewgaw, a trinket.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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noun
A small squib-like firework that explodes with a fizzing or hissing noise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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noun
Archaic form of fishgig.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, archaic
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noun
A police informer, a stool pigeon, someone employed by police to entrap someone else or provoke them to commit a crime.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, dated, slang
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noun
common ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris, syn. Senecio jacobaea).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, rare
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verb
To roam around in a frivolous manner; to gad about, to gallivant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, intransitive
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verb
To act as a police informer or agent provocateur.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, dated, slang
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noun
a firework that fizzes as it moves
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: firework, pyrotechnic
noun
an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: spear, gig, fishgig, lance
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Broader terms: implement
Narrower terms: harpoon, leister
History
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”).
From fizz + gig (“a whirling thing”).
Possibly from Spanish fisga (“harpoon”).
Origin unknown.
