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▪ I. gig, n.1|gɪg|
Forms: 3–8 gigg(e, 4–5 gygge, (6 ghyg), 6– gig.
[Perh. onomatopœic; the identity of the word in all senses is very doubtful.]
I. Something that whirls.
†1. A whipping-top. Obs.
c1440[see whirligig]. 1570Billingsley Euclid xi. def. xvi. 317 This solide [Cone] of many is called Turbo, which to our purpose may be Englished a Top or Ghyg. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. v. i. 70 Thou disputes like an Infant: goe whip thy Gigge. 1644in N. & Q. Ser. i. IX. 422/1 For four giggs and scourge sticks is. a1657Lovelace Poems (1864) 159 H' has left his apish jigs, And whipping hearts like gigs. 1692Locke Educ. §130 Play-things which are above their Skill to make, as Tops, Gigs, Battledors, and the like. 1719D'Urfey Pills V. 109, I told her I'd give her a Whip for her Gig. a1793[see giddy a. 2 d].
fig.1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Wks. ii. 79/2 For hee's the gigge of time, Whom sharpest wits haue whipt with sportful rime. Ibid. 144/1 Thou Tauerne, Alehouse, Whorehouse, Gig of time, That for a groat wilt amongst Tinkers rime.
†2. A set of feathers arranged so as to revolve rapidly in the wind, for the purpose of attracting birds to a net. Obs.
1621Markham Prev. Hunger (1655) 115. a 1698 W. Blundell Cavalier's Note-bk. (1880) 272 A great help..for bringing in of larks about your net, is a gigg of feathers..which twirleth swiftly round on the least breath of wind. 1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Day-net.
3. = gig-mill.
1842Brande Dict. Sci., Gigs, or gig machines, are rotatory cylinders covered with wire-teeth, for teazling woollen cloth. 1886Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. s.v., Gig, Gig-mill, the machine by which the shag or nap is raised upon blankets and other cloth; also applied to the building in which the machine is worked..‘Where's your Tom now? Au! he do worky down to factory—he 've a-worked to the gig's two year’.
II. Applied to persons.
†4. A flighty, giddy girl. Obs.
a1225Ancr. R. 204 Hunten þer efter..mid gigge leihtre, mid hor eien, mid eni lihte lates. c1395Plowman's T. (Skeat) 759 Some spend hir good upon [hir] gigges, And finden hem of greet aray. c1430How Gd. Wyf tauȝte hir Dau. 55 in Babees Bk. 38 Fare not as a gigge, for nouȝt þat may bitide, Lauȝe þou not to loude, ne ȝane þou not to wide. 1594Willobie Avisa (1880) 41 Thou selfewill gig that doth detest My faithfull loue, looke to thy fame. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v., A young Gig, a wanton Lass. 1780F. Burney Diary June, Charlotte L― called, and the little gig told all the quarrels..she led in her family.
5. A queer-looking figure, an oddity; dial. a fool. Chiefly Eton slang. Cf. geck n.1, gegge.
1777in Life Hugh Eliot iv. (1868) 124 Upon my word, Hugh, you are the greatest gig in the world. 1797G. Colman Heir at Law iv. ii, What a damn'd gig you look like. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Gig, a trifling, silly, flighty fellow. 1825Blackw. Mag. XVII. 416 O, France is the region of caricature, And a regular Frenchman's a gig to be sure With his apple-green breeches [etc.]. 1832Macaulay in Life & Lett. (1880) I. 265 Be you Tories, be you Whigs, You must write to sad young gigs. 1836T. Hook G. Gurney I. 193 They were what Mr. Daly..called uncommon gigs. 1856G. J. Whyte-Melville Kate Cov. xiv, Such a set of ‘gigs’, my dear, I never saw in my life..not a good-looking man amongst them.
III. 6. †a. A fancy, joke, whim. Obs.
1590Nashe Pasquil's Apol. i. C ij b, A right cutte of the worde, without gigges or fancies of hæreticall and newe opinions. 1600J. Lane Tom Tel-troth 118 New gigges for a countrie clowne. 1607Schol. Disc. agst. Antichr. i. i. 16 It is a common gigge to shift of all things brought against this filthee Idoll. a1625Fletcher Hum. Lieuten. iv. iv, I must go see him presently, For this is such a gig. 1642Rogers Naaman 204 Any idle tale, or gigge of a geering, gibing wit. 1724Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) III. 321 They put a gigg in the gravest scull And send their wits to gather wool. 1821Joseph the Book-Man 111 One talk'd of life's most funny rigs, And much enlarg'd on pleasing gigs.
b. Fun, merriment, glee. in high gig, on the (high) gig: in a state of boisterous hilarity; also dial. eager, impatient. Now dial.
1777F. Burney Early Diary (1889) II. 201 The girls, Betsy and Beckey, were upon the high gig all the time, for they enjoyed seeing me thus whisked about. 1807Oracle in Spirit Publ. Jrnls. (1809) XII. 45, I tells you Common Garden's the gig, the go, and the finish. 1813Moore Post Bag iii. 21 We were all in high gig—Roman Punch and Tokay Travelled round, till our heads travelled just the same way. 1819‘R. Rabelais’ Abeillard & H. 36 Being so full of gig and glee Begins her speech with He! He! He! c1830in Besant 50 Yrs. Ago 134 A laughter-loving lass of eighteen who dearly loved a bit of gig. 1876Mid-Yorksh. Gloss., Gig, a state of flurry; ‘He's on the gig to be off.’
c. Comb. gig-fair local (see quot.) ? Obs.
1829Glover Hist. Derby I. 271 Fairs for shows, ribands, toys, &c. commonly called holiday or gig fairs.
▪ II. gig, n.2|gɪg|
[Transferred sense of gig n.1 I.]
1. A light two-wheeled one-horse carriage.
1791‘G. Gambado’ Ann. Horsem. v. (1809) 89 Airing en famille, in a gig, accompanied with a husband and three children. 1796in Grose's Dict. Vulg. Tongue (ed. 3). 1809Windham Sp. Parl. 26 May 24 Let the former riders in gigs and whiskeys and one-horsed carriages continue to ride in them. 1838Hawthorne Jrnl. Solit. Man in Tales & Sk. (1879) 84 Spruce gigs rattling past. 1855Thackeray Newcomes I. 51 In the carriage, mind you, not in the gig driven by the groom. 1889G. N. Hooper in Driving (Badm.) 379 Gigs are considered equally suitable for London and country use.
2. Naut. A light, narrow, clinker-built ship's boat, adapted either for rowing or sailing. Also cutter-gig, whale-gig.
(Not in Falconer Dict. Marine 1780.)
1790Wolcot (P. Pindar) Adv. Fut. Laureat Wks. 1812 II. 338 That by its painter drags the Gig or Yawl. 1801in Nicolas Disp. Nelson (1845) IV. 325 Lord Nelson repaired in his gig (his usual conveyance) on board of our Ship. 1816‘Quiz’ Grand Master i. 24 Tis number sixty-five—a wig—O d―n the number! man the gig. 1860L. Oliphant Earl Elgin's Mission to China I. 71 Customhouse guards..have a proper respect for a British man-of-war's gig. 1875Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. vi. (ed. 2) 213 Cutter Gig, Whale Gig, Whale Gig-Life[boat].
b. A modified form of the ship's gig, used, esp. on the Thames, as a rowing boat, chiefly for racing purposes.
1865[see gig eight sense 4]. 1881Sportsman's Year Bk. 100 A heavy pair-oared gig. 1882Times (weekly ed.) 16 June 2/1 The steam-launches and gigs of the Thames police may with noiseless vigilance patrol the waters. 1888W. B. Woodgate Boating xi. (Badm.) 143 Many regattas offered prizes for pair oars with coxwains in outrigged gigs.
c. Short for gigsman (see 4).
1833M. Scott Tom Cringle xv, One of the Captain's gigs, the handsome black already introduced on the scene.
3. A wooden box or chamber, with two compartments, one above the other, used by miners in ascending and descending a pit-shaft. Also = kibble.
1881Raymond Mining Gloss., Gig. See Kibble..Kibbal or Kibble (Corn. & Wales), an iron bucket for raising ore. 1883B'ham Weekly Post 18 Aug. 4/3 Thirteen men placed themselves in the gig to be drawn to the surface from a depth of about 1,300 feet.
4. attrib. and Comb.
a. simple attributive, as (sense 1) gig-apron, gig-cushion, gig harness, gig-horse, gig-house, gig-umbrella, gig-whip; gig-ways adv.; (sense 2 b) gig-eight, gig-race, gig-sculling.
b. similative, as (sense 2 b) gig-built adj. Also gig-bishop, a bishop who rides in a gig instead of a carriage; gig-box, a box in the seat of a gig; gigsman, one of the crew of a ship's gig; gig-pair, a gig fitted for two rowers; gig-road, -saddle, -tree (see quots.); gig-work, practice in rowing in a gig.
1869Daily News 10 Dec., Stetham and Co. have gutta percha in the shape of *gig-aprons and dumb jockeys.
1852S. G. Osborne in Times 3 Nov., Divide the dioceses into manageable districts, and have what I will call ‘*gig bishops’. 1897Tablet 4 Sept. 384 The Suffragans, or ‘gig-bishops’, as the late Mr. Rogers used to call them.
1833M. Scott Tom Cringle vii. (1859) 143 Fyall ordered Jupiter to bring a case from his *gig box containing some capital brandy.
1896Daily News 5 Aug. 3/3 Mr. J. E. M...happened to be with some friends in a large *gig-built boat close by.
1843Haliburton Attaché I. xi. 195 The lawyer took a stretch for it on the bench, with his *gig cushions for a pillar.
1865Pall Mall G. 23 May 110 We may imagine..the raws and blisters that he endured, ere he was qualified to progress from the coaching tub to a seat in the *gig eight.
1886Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., Gig-saddle, the saddle belonging to a set of single-horse carriage or *gig-harness.
1835Booth Analyt. Dict. 304 Coach-horse, Carriage-horse, *Gig-horse, &c. 1882Ogilvie, Gig-horse, a horse that draws a gig.
1829D. Conway Norway 151 There was also attached..a coach or *gig-house and a garden.
1869Echo 9 Feb., He daily has one or two out in the *gig-pairs.
1888W. B. Woodgate Boating xi. (Badm.) 144 This system..caused *gig races to be fruitful sources of squabbles.
1824Times 7 Jan. 3/5 That is the *gig-road toward's Batler's-green. 1883Standard 9 Nov. 2/2 The road is not a working road, but what they call a gig road.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., *Gig-saddle, a small saddle used with carriage-harness, and carrying the terrets for the driving-reins and the check-hook for the bearing-rein.
1887Sporting Life 30 June 4/6 No sculling boats had been engaged for the scratch *gig sculling race.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., *Gig-tree, the frame of a gig or harness saddle.
1883Reade Tit for Tat in Harper's Mag. Jan. 252/2 The lady..came out to her, and a servant and a *gig umbrella.
1832J. Hodgson in J. Raine Mem. (1858) II. 258 If you come *gig-ways pray bring with you Raine's Testamenta.
1830Chron. 24 Aug. in Ann. Reg. (1831) 137/2 Captain Smith, having jumped out of it, with the *gig-whip in his hand. 1843M. J. Higgins Ess. (1875) 39 Albert..takes up a gig-whip, but does not use it.
1898Daily News 20 Jan. 3/4 All the candidates indulged in long bouts of *gig work.
Hence gig-ful, as many as a gig will hold.
1848J. Mackintosh Diary in Macleod Mem. vi. (1854) 154 Two gigfuls of fishers passed me.
▪ III. † gig, n.3 Obs. rare—1.
In 4 gyge.
[Of obscure origin; perh. echoic; cf. Sc. gig, geig v., to squeak.]
? A squeaking noise.
c1384Chaucer H. Fame iii. 852 (Fairfax MS.) And euer mo so swyft as thought This queynt hous about went..And al thys hous..was made of twigges..That for the swough and for the twynges [read twyges] This house was also [= as] ful of gyges And also ful eke of chirkynges As [etc.].
▪ IV. gig, n.4|gɪg|
[Shortened from fishgig or fizgig.]
A kind of fish-spear; = fishgig, fizgig 4. Also U.S., ‘An arrangement of four barbless hooks, fastened back to back, and attached to a hand-line, used for catching fish by dragging it through a school’ (Funk's Stand. Dict.).
1722R. B. Hist. Virginia 131 At each End of the Canoe stands an Indian, with a Gig, or pointed Spear, setting the Canoe forward with the Butt-end of the Spear, as gently as he can, by that Means, stealing upon the Fish, without any Noise. 1774Cook Voy. (1777) II. iii. vii. 91, I did not see that they had any other weapon but darts and gigs, intended only for striking of fish. 1807P. Gass Jrnl. 228 Two men are trying to take some of the fish with a gig. 1877G. Gibbs Tribes Washington 195 The spring salmon are taken..in the small streams either with the scoop-net or with a gig.
▪ V. † gig, n.5 Obs.
Also 7 gigg(e.
(See quots.)
1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 106/1 A Gigge is a hole in the Ground where Fire is made to dry the Flax. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey) Gigge.
▪ VI. gig, n.6 colloq.|gɪg|
[Origin unknown.]
An engagement for a musician or musicians playing jazz, dance-music, etc.; spec. a ‘one-night stand’; also, the place of such a performance. Also transf. and attrib. Hence ˈgigster, one who does ‘gigs’.
1926Melody Maker Sept. 7 One popular ‘gig’ band makes use of a nicely printed booklet. 1927Ibid. May 457/3 This seven-piece combination does many ‘gigs’ in S.E. London, but is hoping to secure a resident engagement at Leamington in the near future. 1934S. R. Nelson All about Jazz vi. 113 Jack runs numerous bands which play ‘gig’ work—i.e. private engagements or public work. In his office, he has a file in which some hundreds of ‘gig’ musicians are listed. 1939Melody Maker 9 Sept., When King George died there was terrible confusion, especially among gigsters, as to whether they should fulfil their gigs or not. 1964L. Hairston in J. H. Clarke Harlem 287 Pa—knockin' hisself out on a mail-handler gig at the Post Office where the pay is so lousy he's gotta work a part-time gig. 1965G. Melly Owning-Up vii. 80 Another Proustian gig was the Civic Hall, Nantwich. We played there fairly regularly right through the 'fifties. 1969Observer 12 Jan. 31/5 Leading groups will be given two hours in which to play what they want, without the limitations imposed by commercial gigs.
▪ VII. † gig, v.1|gɪg|
[f. gig n.1 (sense 1).]
a. intr.;
b. trans. (sense obscure: see below).
The verb seems literally to denote the action of some kind of ‘gig’ or whipping-top of peculiar construction, having inside it a smaller ‘gig’ of the same shape, which was thrown out by the effect of rapid rotation. Hence to gig (out) appears to be used fig. with the sense ‘to throw out or give rise to (a smaller repetition of itself)’. The Dicts., on the ground of the Dryden quot., have plausibly, but erroneously, explained the transitive vb. as meaning ‘to engender,’ assigning to it a derivation from L. gignĕre.
1651Cleveland Poems 44 No wonder they'l confesse no losse of men; For Rupert knocks 'em, till they gig agen. 1658–9in Burton's Diary (1828) IV. 185 One question gigs out another. We shall never end. 1677I. L. Ded. to Cleveland's Poems A iv, How many of their slight productions may be gigged out of one of his pregnant Words? 1690Dryden Amphitryon Prol. 21 Yet in lampoons you libel one another. The first produces still a second jig; You whip them out, like school-boys, till they gig; And with the same success..For every one still dwindles to a less. Ibid. iii. i, Sosia. You, my Lord Amphitryon, may have brought forth another You my Lord Amphitryon..and our Diamonds may have procreated these Diamonds.. Phædra. If this be true, I hope my Goblet has gigg'd another Golden Goblet.
▪ VIII. gig, v.2|gɪg|
[perh. onomatopœic; there may be connexion with prec.]
†1. intr. ? To move to and fro. Obs. rare.
1693Dryden Juvenal vi. (1697) 138 The rank Matrons, dancing to the Pipe, Gig with their Bums.
2. trans. To move backwards and forwards. Chiefly U.S.; also techn. in to gig back (the carriage of a sawmill after the cut is made). Cf. jig v.
1815Niles' Weekly Reg. 16 Sept. 36/1 The carriages run upon cast racks, are propelled by the improved short hand and gigged backwards by bevel wheels, in the manner of the best mills. 1874W. M. Baines Narr. E. Crewe viii. 180 This carriage [to the frame-saw] could be ‘gigged’ backwards or forwards or fed forwards. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. s.v. Gig-saw, The motion is imparted by the crank and pitman, and the spring above gigs back the saw, keeping it strained on its upward stroke. 1877Lumberman's Gaz. 8 Dec. 362 These gangs [i.e. of saws]..convert whole logs into lumber as they pass through—thus obviating the necessity of ‘gigging back’. 1886Hotchkiss in Encycl. Brit. XXI. 345/1 A rope..passing over pulleys in the floor to a drum beneath, so arranged as to be under the control of the sawyer in its feeding movement or in reversal to ‘gig’ the carriage back to its first position. 1887Microscope VII. 333 Gently gig the glass back and forth.
3. Comb., as gig-back, gig-saw (see quots.).
1875Knight Dict. Mech., Gig-saw, a thin saw to which a rapid vertical reciprocation is imparted. 1893Funk's Stand. Dict., Gig-back, a device by which a sawmill carriage is run back after the cut has been made, usually much more rapidly than during the forward motion.
Hence ˈgigging vbl. n.; in quot. attrib.
1887Microscope VII. 335 The..diatoms are again transferred to the crystal gigging glass.
▪ IX. gig, v.3|gɪg|
[? Back-formation from gig-mill.]
trans. To raise the nap of (cloth) with a gig. Also in Comb., as gig-drum, gig-machine, gig-wheel. Hence ˈgigging vbl. n.; also attrib., as gigging-machine, gig-mill. Also ˈgigger, one who works a gigging-machine.
1789Trans. Soc. Arts VII. 195 Mills, called here Gigging-Mills..worked by men turning them backward and forward, till the wool is sufficiently opened for use. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 1320 Several French schemes have been mounted for making the gig-drum act upon the two sides of the cloth. 1842Francis Dict. Arts, Gig Wheel, a mill in which the nap of woollen cloth is raised by the application of teasles. 1842[see gig n.1 3]. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Gigging-machine, a machine for dressing woolen cloth by subjecting it to the action of teasels, whose fine hooks draw the loose fibres to the surface. 18..Fibre & Fabric V. 20 (Cent.) A man who can take charge of dyeing, scouring, fulling and gigging in a small country mill.
▪ X. † gig, v.4 Obs.—1
trans. ? To befool, hoax.
1795Poetry in Ann. Reg. 153 *Gigg'd by their neighbours, gull'd of all their cash.
▪ XI. gig, v.5|gɪg|
[f. gig n.4]
a. trans. To spear (fish) with a gig.
b. intr. ‘To fish with a gig or fishgig’ (Webster 1828–32).
1816Chron. in Ann. Reg. 569 The Indians sometimes gig them [porpoises].
▪ XII. gig, v.6|gɪg|
[f. gig n.2]
intr. To ride or travel in a gig. Also to gig it.
1807T. Moore Mem. (1856) VIII. 65 To-day I gig it to Ashby. 1823Lady Granville Lett. 17 Oct. (1894) I. 229, I am enchanted, I have gigged round the new road. 1829P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 3 Lost the coach, and had to gig it home. 1860All Year Round No. 38. 280 A young doctor gigging it at an express-train velocity. 1836Southey Lett. (1856) IV. 479 We had first two miles' walk, then two miles' gigging.
▪ XIII. gig, v.7 colloq.|gɪg|
[f. gig n.6]
intr. To do a ‘gig’ or ‘gigs’ (see gig n.6); freq. to gig around (see quot. 1939). Hence ˈgigging vbl. n.
1939C. E. Smith in Ramsey & Smith Jazzmen (1940) xiii. 267 To gig around meant to play for small parties, week-end engagements, and the like. 1949L. Feather Inside Be-Bop iii. 77 [He] gigs around New York with Chubby Jackson, Lennie Tristano, Benny Goodman. Ibid. 92 Settling in California, [he] gigged with Boyd Raeburn, [etc.]. 1952B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz in Amer. (1958) xviii. 227 He had the usual Gotham gigging beginning. 1959‘F. Newton’ Jazz Scene xii. 222 He had to earn his living as a blueprint inspector, occasionally gigging in his spare time. 1967Crescendo Feb. 12/2 Buy Professor Jacko's ‘Gig-Book For All Occasions’. Gives melody line, chords and starting note for complete evening's gigging.
▪ XIV. gig
see jig.
▪ XV. gig(g by geoul
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