fizgig

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.”

2. isim Something frivolous or trivial; a gewgaw, a trinket.

   “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.”

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

   “Why should I go gadding and fizgigging after firking flantado amphibologies?”

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

   “Very different were our fizgigs at Brambles'. Neither powder nor pepper (you know) was adulterated in those days, and if you made a fizgig, why it blossomed and starred like a golden thistle, flashed into a myriad sparklets like a tiny fountain for Queen Mab and her troupe to dance around.”

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

   “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: […]”

6. isim 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.”

7. fiil 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" […]”

8. isim 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.”