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fizgig, fisgig|ˈfɪzgɪg|
Forms: 6 fisegig, fysgygge, 6–7 fisgigg, 7 fisguigge, 9 fizzgig, 6– fisgig, 7– fizgig.
[A compound of gig, which had the senses: 1. frivolous person (Chaucer); 2. whipping-top (Shakes.); the first element is obscure, but may perh. be identical with fise. The Swiss-Ger. fisigugg, foolish busybody, can hardly be connected. Sense 3 seems to have been suggested by that of fizz without regard to the second element. Sense 4 was app. taken from Sp. fisga harpoon.]
1. A light, frivolous woman, fond of running or ‘gadding’ about; = gig. Also attrib. or as adj. = flighty.
a1529Skelton Elinour Rumming 538 Than sterte forth a fysgygge, And she broughte a bore pygge. 1596Gosson Pleasant Quippes for Gentlewomen 13 When you looke for praises sound, Then are you for light fisgiggs crownde. 1611Cotgr., Trotiere, a raumpe, fisgig. 1656S. Holland Zara (1719) 140 A Fis-gig, a flurt, a fickle..foolish Female. 1872Browning Fifine xxxiii. 46 In short, prefers to me..this fizgig called Fifine! 1877N.W. Linc. Gloss., Fizgig, an ugly woman; a woman dressed in a strange or unbecoming manner. 1928Galsworthy Swan Song iii. xii. 308 Like all these ‘fizz-gig’ young moderns, she was just fluttering without basic purpose or direction.
2. (See quots.)
1656–81Blount Glossogr., Fizgig [1681 Fisgig] is a kind of Top, which boyes play with. 1883Hampsh. Gloss., Fiz-gig, a whirligig; a round piece of iron or brass, serrated at the rim; through two holes near the centre, a piece of whipcord is passed. When set in motion by the twisting of the string, either in the air or in water, it makes a whizzing, hissing, or fizzing noise.
3. A kind of firework; a squib.
1644Nye Gunnery ii. (1647) 91 How to make Fisgigs, which some call by the name of Serpents. 1668J. White Rich Cab. (ed. 4) 87 The serpents or fisgigs are made about the bignesse of ones little finger, by rowling a paper upon a small rowler..and choaking the paper coffin an inch from the end, then fill it three inches with powder dust. 1886Dowden Shelley I. vii. 306 Fiery fizgigs in the hands of a pair of gleeful boys.
4. A kind of harpoon.
Perverted into fishgig. The gig which appears in this sense from 18th c. is perh. a shortened form.
1565J. Sparke in Hakluyt Voy. III. 520 Those bonitos..being galled by a fisgig did follow our shippe..500 leagues. 1668D. Smith Voy. Constantinople in Misc. Cur. (1708) III. 31 A Fisgig, a kind of barbed Iron, at the End of a Pole tyed fast to a Rope. 1798Acc. Bks. in Ann. Reg. 460 Spears, fizgigs, or other articles. 1947Yr. Bk. Arts N.Z. iii. 166 Steal their canoes, Smash their fishing fiz-gigs.
5. In various senses suggested by the grotesque sound of the word or by association with fizz:
a. A piece of tawdry finery, a gim-crack.
b. A silly notion, an absurd crotchet.
c. to make fizgigs: app. some drawing-room pastime (perh. in sense 2).
1822Southey in Q. Rev. XXVIII. 26 Modes of devotion, with their outward and visible signs..the banderoles, and humgigs, and fizzgigs of superstition. 1824Blackw. Mag. XVI. 287 You soon take a fine fizgig into your head. 1825T. Lister Granby viii. (1826) 104 The Miss Cliftons..were always au courant du jour..were the first who made fizgigs, or acted charades.
6. An informer. Austral. slang.
1902Daily Chron. 21 Aug. 5/2 Each detective [in Melbourne] had a criminal in his employ, who was known as a ‘fizz-gig’. 1953Baker Australia Speaks v. 124 A stool pigeon or informer, otherwise known as a fizgig, fizzer, shelf and topoff.
Hence † ˈfizgig v. intr., to run or gad about.
1594Nashe Vnfort. Trav. 32 Why should I goe gadding and fisgigging after firking flantado amphibologies? |