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▪ I. giggish, a.1|ˈgɪgɪʃ|
Also 6 giggisse.
[f. gig n.1 (sense 6) + -ish.]
Lively, flighty, wanton.
1523Skelton Garl. Laurel 1206 This fustiane maistres and this giggisse gase. 1596P. Colse Penelope (1880) 167 Thy giggish tricke, thy queanish trade, A thousand Bridewel birds hath made. 1642Rogers Naaman xxii. 844 Our giggish heads have not the gift to observe a Promise. 1795Wolcot (P. Pindar) Tales of Hoy Wks. 1812 IV. 398 Come, come, something giggish, something merry. 1882A. Beresford-Hope Brandreths I. xvi. 254 A giggish widow.
Hence ˈgiggishness.
1781Bentham Wks. (1843) X. 100 There is a sort of giggishness about him, too.
▪ II. giggish, a.2|ˈgɪgɪʃ|
[f. gig n.2 + -ish.]
a. Resembling a gig.
b. Directed towards driving a gig.
1837New Monthly Mag. L. 532 They would not accuse it [his one-horse chaise] of ever having been too giggish even for a doctor of divinity. 1846Mrs. Gore Eng. Char. (1852) 121 It was now his ambition to drive a pair. He had outlived his giggish propensities. |