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▪ I. gigot1|ˈdʒɪgət|
Forms: 6–7 gigget(t, -ot, (6 gygget, gygot, jigotte), 7–9 jigget, (7 geegot, jegotte, 9 jigot), 7– gigot.
[a. F. gigot, of unknown origin.]
1. A leg or haunch of mutton, veal, etc. prepared for table. ? Obs.
1526in Househ. Ord. (1790) 174 Giggots of Mutton or Venison, stopped with Cloves. 1615Markham Eng. Housw. 57 To roast a Gigget of Mutton which is the legge splatted and halfe part of the loine together; you shall [etc.]. 1657R. Ligon Barbadoes (1673) 11 Turkies and Hens we had roasted; a gigget of young goat. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Veal, A Gigot of Veal may be..eaten with Sauce made of Vinegar, Pepper, &c. 1766St. John in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn (1882) II. 102, I hope to be in town on New Year's day in order to have your company over a gigot, and a bottle of claret. 1834M. Scott Cruise Midge (1863) 194 A good practical sermon should be like a jigot o'..mutton, short in the shank and pithy and nutritious. 1860J. C. Jeaffreson Bk. ab. Doct. viii. (1862) 96 On the table the only viands were barons of beef, jiggets of mutton [etc.].
b. humorously. The knee. Cf. marrow-bone.
1687A. Lovell Bergerac's Com. Hist. 117 So that he falls upon his Geegots.
†2. A slice, a small piece. Obs.
c1611Chapman Iliad i. 452 They eat the inwards; then in giggots cut the other fit for meat. c1618Fletcher Double Marr. iii. ii, Cut the slaves to giggets.
transf.a1626Middleton Mayor Queenb. ii. iii. (1661) C 4 b, Your Roman Gallants, that cannot wear Good Suits but they must have them cut and slasht in giggets.
†b. A minced meat, a sausage. Obs.
1553Eden Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.) 29 Keping it in a certayne pickle as we do iegottes or sausages. 1656W. D. tr. Comenius' Gate Lat. Unl. §365 Of flesh shred small he maketh a gallimafery, pies, giggots.
3. Comb., as gigot-sleeve = ‘leg of mutton sleeve’. Also simply gigot.
1824Lady Granville Lett. (1894) I. 310 The sleeve will not disgrace it. Gigot at the top, un seul pli, and then innumerable little furrows. 1837Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) IV. 347, I cannot say positively whether he ever touched her face..he certainly touched the gigot sleeves. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair li, Ladies wore gigots, and large combs..in their hair. 1853Mrs. Gaskell Cranford (1886) 2 The last gigot, the last tight and scanty petticoat in wear in England, was seen in Cranford and seen without a smile. 1859Tennent Ceylon II. vii. v. 207 A..dress of stiffened white muslin with gigot sleeves.
▪ II. † ˈgigot2 Obs.
[a. F. gigot.]
A small piece of money; the later French liard.
1530Palsgr. 851 Not a gygot, pas vng nycquet. |