fizgign.

Brit.

/ˈfɪzɡɪɡ/, U.S.

/ˈfɪzˌɡɪɡ/

Forms: 1500s fisegig, fysgygge, 1500s–1600s fisgigg, 1600s fisguigge, 1800s fizzgig, 1500s– fisgig, 1600s– fizgig.

Etymology: A compound of gig n.¹, which had the senses: 1. frivolous person (Chaucer); 2. whipping-top (Shakespeare); the first element is obscure, but may perhaps be identical with fise n. The Swiss-German fisigugg , foolish busybody, can hardly be connected. Sense 3 seems to have been suggested by that of fizz n. without regard to the second element. Sense 4 was apparently taken from Spanish fisga harpoon.

1. A light, frivolous woman, fond of running or ‘gadding’ about; = gig n.¹ Also attributive or as adj. = flighty.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > light-mindedness > [noun] > person > female

gig?c1225

gigleta1340

halok?1507

fizgiga1529

gilliea1529

flirt1562

peat1566

sluta1592

gillian flirt1593

giggle1611

filly1616

jill-flirt1627

flibbertigibbet1640

flirtigig1683

flip-flap1702

gamine1848

kitten1870

sillypop1894

frippet1908

the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > light-mindedness > [adjective]

lightlyeOE

lightOE

lightsomea1425

flying1509

light-minded?1529

tickle or light of the sear?1530

giddya1547

light-headed1549

gidded1563

giddish1566

fling-brained1570

tickle-headed1583

toyish1584

shallow1594

leger1598

corky1601

barmy1602

airy1609

unfirma1616

unballast1622

cork-brained1630

unballasted1644

kickshawa1655

unserious1655

unstudious1663

flirtishc1665

caper-witteda1670

shatter-headedc1686

corky-brained1699

flea-lugged1724

halokit1724

shatter-brained1727

scattered-brained1747

shatter-witted1775

flippant1791

butterfly-brained1796

scatter-brained1804

gossamer1806

shandy-pated1806

shattery1820

barmy-brained1823

papilionaceous1832

flirtatious1834

flirty1840

Micawberish1859

scatterheaded1867

flibberty-gibberty1879

thistledown1897

shatter-pated1901

trivial-minded1905

scattery1924

fizgig1928

ditzy1979

a1529 J. Skelton Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng in Certayne Bks. (?1545) 538 Than sterte forth a fysgygge, And she broughte a bore pygge.

1595 Pleasant Quippes for Vpstart Gentle-women sig. B3 When you looke, for praises sound, Then are you for light fisgiggs crownde.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Trotiere, a raumpe, fisgig.

1656 S. Holland Don Zara iii. vi. 201 A Fis-gig, a flurt, a fickle..foolish Female.

1872 R. Browning Fifine xxxiii. 46 In short, prefers to me..this fizgig called Fifine!

1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Fizgig, an ugly woman; a woman dressed in a strange or unbecoming manner.

1928 J. Galsworthy Swan Song iii. xii. 308 Like all these ‘fizz-gig’ young moderns, she was just fluttering without basic purpose or direction.

1999 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 21 June (Features section) 6 The raven-haired fizgig, Nancy Samuels (you couldn't mistake her Sioux City, Iowa, charm), is more than just another pretty face.

2. (See quots.)

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > top > [noun] > other tops

scopperilc1425

fizgig1656

gyroscope top1880

dice-top1894

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Fizgig [1681 Fisgig] is a kind of Top, which boyes play with.

1883 W. H. Cope Gloss. Hampshire Words 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.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > firework > [noun] > cracker or squib

squib1534

crackera1592

breaker1630

serpent1634

fizgig1647

firecracker1650

petard1668

reporter1688

riprap1709

swarmer1740

mine1769

India cracker1780

throwdown1877

whizz-bang1881

flip-flap1885

snake1891

thunderflash1943

banger1959

1647 N. Nye Art of Gunnery ii. 91 How to make Fisgigs, which some call by the name of Serpents.

1668 J. White Rich Cabinet (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.

1886 E. Dowden Life Shelley I. vii. 306 Fiery fizgigs in the hands of a pair of gleeful boys.

4. A kind of harpoon. Perverted into fish-gig n. The gig n.¹ which appears in this sense from 18th cent. is perhaps a shortened form.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > spear > [noun]

pricka1350

garfanglec1440

wawsper1472

spear1551

waster1580

fizgig1589

visgee1593

fish-spear1611

glaive1640

fish-giga1642

gaff1656

gig1705

lance1728

sticker1772

graina1818

picaroon1837

pickpole1837

fishing-spear1840

lily-iron1852

gambeering iron1883

mackerel gaff1883

1589 J. Sparke in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 542 Those Bonitoes..being galled by a fisgig did follow our ship..500. leagues.

1697 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 619 A Fisgig, a kind of barbed Iron, at the end of a Pole tyed fast to a Rope.

1798 Acc. Bks. in Ann. Reg. 460 Spears, fizgigs, or other articles.

1947 Year 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 n.:

a. A piece of tawdry finery, a gim-crack.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [noun] > thing

fizgig1822

1822 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 28 26 Modes of devotion, with their outward and visible signs..the banderoles, and humgigs, and fizzgigs of superstition.

b. A silly notion, an absurd crotchet.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > capriciousness > a caprice or whim

fantasya1450

wantonness1531

humour1533

worm?a1534

will1542

toy?1545

whey-worm1548

wild worm1548

freak1563

crotchet1573

fancy1579

whim-wham1580

whirligig1589

caper1592

megrim1593

spleen1594

kicksey-winsey1599

fegary1600

humorousness1604

curiosity1605

conundrum1607

whimsy1607

windmill1612

buzza1616

capriccioa1616

quirka1616

flama1625

maggota1625

fantasticality1631

capruch1634

gimcrack1639

whimseycado1654

caprich1656

excursion1662

frisk1665

caprice1673

fita1680

grub1681

fantasque1697

whim1697

frolic1711

flight1717

whigmaleery1730

vagary1753

maddock1787

kink1803

fizgig1824

fad1834

whimmery1837

fantod1839

brain crack1853

whimsy-whamsy1871

tic1896

tick1900

1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 16 287 You soon take a fine fizgig into your head.

c. to make fizgigs: apparently some drawing-room pastime (perhaps in sense 2).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > parlour and party games > [verb (intransitive)] > play other party or parlour games

to make fizgigs1826

1826 T. H. Lister Granby (ed. 2) I. viii. 104 The Miss Cliftons..were always au courant du jour,..were the first who made fizgigs, or acted charades.

6. An informer. Australian slang.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > information > informing on or against > [noun] > informer

wrayerc1000

wrobberc1300

discoverera1400

denunciator1474

informer1503

denouncer1533

detector1541

delatora1572

sycophant1579

inquisitor1580

scout1585

finger man1596

emphanista1631

quadruplator1632

informant1645

eastee-man1681

whiddler1699

runner1724

stag1725

snitch1785

qui tam1788

squeak1795

split1819

clype1825

telegraph1825

snitcher1827

Jack Nasty1837

pigeon1847

booker1863

squealer1865

pig1874

rounder1884

sneak1886

mouse1890

finger1899

fizgig1902

screamer1902

squeaker1903

canary1912

shopper1924

narker1932

snurge1933

cheese eater1935

singer1935

tip-off1941

top-off1941

tout1959

rat fink1961

whistle-blower1970

1902 Daily Chron. 21 Aug. 5/2 Each detective [in Melbourne] had a criminal in his employ, who was known as a ‘fizz-gig’.

1941 in S. J. Baker Dict. Austral. Slang

1953 S. J. Baker Austral. Speaks v. 124 A stool pigeon or informer, otherwise known as a fizgig, fizzer, shelf and topoff.

1955 V. Kelly Shadow iv. 45 Prior passed the word along to phizgigs that the police would appreciate information about the identity of the counterfeiters.

1973 Nation Rev. (Melbourne) No. 49. 2/2 Lenny..was described in his biog as a former ‘phizzgig’ (police informer).

1980 A. S. Veitch Run from Morning 43 You can't get nowhere without good contacts. Phizgigs don't come out of automatic bloody dispensers!

Derivatives

ˈfizgig v. intransitive †(a) to run or gad about (obsolete); (b) to act as an informer.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (intransitive)]

scritheOE

walka1200

fizgig1594

itinerate1600

to go round1636

to travel it1687

to go around1742

flitch1787

1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. F^v Why shoulde I goe gadding and fisgigging after firking flantado Amphibologies.

1955 V. Kelly Shadow i. 10 The boys suspect he's been phizgigging.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	fizgig
释义	fizgign. Brit. /ˈfɪzɡɪɡ/, U.S. /ˈfɪzˌɡɪɡ/ Forms: 1500s fisegig, fysgygge, 1500s–1600s fisgigg, 1600s fisguigge, 1800s fizzgig, 1500s– fisgig, 1600s– fizgig. Etymology: A compound of gig n.¹, which had the senses: 1. frivolous person (Chaucer); 2. whipping-top (Shakespeare); the first element is obscure, but may perhaps be identical with fise n. The Swiss-German fisigugg , foolish busybody, can hardly be connected. Sense 3 seems to have been suggested by that of fizz n. without regard to the second element. Sense 4 was apparently taken from Spanish fisga harpoon. 1. A light, frivolous woman, fond of running or ‘gadding’ about; = gig n.¹ Also attributive or as adj. = flighty. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > light-mindedness > [noun] > person > female gig?c1225 gigleta1340 halok?1507 fizgiga1529 gilliea1529 flirt1562 peat1566 sluta1592 gillian flirt1593 giggle1611 filly1616 jill-flirt1627 flibbertigibbet1640 flirtigig1683 flip-flap1702 gamine1848 kitten1870 sillypop1894 frippet1908 the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > light-mindedness > [adjective] lightlyeOE lightOE lightsomea1425 flying1509 light-minded?1529 tickle or light of the sear?1530 giddya1547 light-headed1549 gidded1563 giddish1566 fling-brained1570 tickle-headed1583 toyish1584 shallow1594 leger1598 corky1601 barmy1602 airy1609 unfirma1616 unballast1622 cork-brained1630 unballasted1644 kickshawa1655 unserious1655 unstudious1663 flirtishc1665 caper-witteda1670 shatter-headedc1686 corky-brained1699 flea-lugged1724 halokit1724 shatter-brained1727 scattered-brained1747 shatter-witted1775 flippant1791 butterfly-brained1796 scatter-brained1804 gossamer1806 shandy-pated1806 shattery1820 barmy-brained1823 papilionaceous1832 flirtatious1834 flirty1840 Micawberish1859 scatterheaded1867 flibberty-gibberty1879 thistledown1897 shatter-pated1901 trivial-minded1905 scattery1924 fizgig1928 ditzy1979 a1529 J. Skelton Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng in Certayne Bks. (?1545) 538 Than sterte forth a fysgygge, And she broughte a bore pygge. 1595 Pleasant Quippes for Vpstart Gentle-women sig. B3 When you looke, for praises sound, Then are you for light fisgiggs crownde. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Trotiere, a raumpe, fisgig. 1656 S. Holland Don Zara iii. vi. 201 A Fis-gig, a flurt, a fickle..foolish Female. 1872 R. Browning Fifine xxxiii. 46 In short, prefers to me..this fizgig called Fifine! 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Fizgig, an ugly woman; a woman dressed in a strange or unbecoming manner. 1928 J. Galsworthy Swan Song iii. xii. 308 Like all these ‘fizz-gig’ young moderns, she was just fluttering without basic purpose or direction. 1999 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 21 June (Features section) 6 The raven-haired fizgig, Nancy Samuels (you couldn't mistake her Sioux City, Iowa, charm), is more than just another pretty face. 2. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > top > [noun] > other tops scopperilc1425 fizgig1656 gyroscope top1880 dice-top1894 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Fizgig [1681 Fisgig] is a kind of Top, which boyes play with. 1883 W. H. Cope Gloss. Hampshire Words 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. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > firework > [noun] > cracker or squib squib1534 crackera1592 breaker1630 serpent1634 fizgig1647 firecracker1650 petard1668 reporter1688 riprap1709 swarmer1740 mine1769 India cracker1780 throwdown1877 whizz-bang1881 flip-flap1885 snake1891 thunderflash1943 banger1959 1647 N. Nye Art of Gunnery ii. 91 How to make Fisgigs, which some call by the name of Serpents. 1668 J. White Rich Cabinet (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. 1886 E. Dowden Life Shelley I. vii. 306 Fiery fizgigs in the hands of a pair of gleeful boys. 4. A kind of harpoon. Perverted into fish-gig n. The gig n.¹ which appears in this sense from 18th cent. is perhaps a shortened form. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > spear > [noun] pricka1350 garfanglec1440 wawsper1472 spear1551 waster1580 fizgig1589 visgee1593 fish-spear1611 glaive1640 fish-giga1642 gaff1656 gig1705 lance1728 sticker1772 graina1818 picaroon1837 pickpole1837 fishing-spear1840 lily-iron1852 gambeering iron1883 mackerel gaff1883 1589 J. Sparke in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 542 Those Bonitoes..being galled by a fisgig did follow our ship..500. leagues. 1697 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 619 A Fisgig, a kind of barbed Iron, at the end of a Pole tyed fast to a Rope. 1798 Acc. Bks. in Ann. Reg. 460 Spears, fizgigs, or other articles. 1947 Year 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 n.: a. A piece of tawdry finery, a gim-crack. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [noun] > thing fizgig1822 1822 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 28 26 Modes of devotion, with their outward and visible signs..the banderoles, and humgigs, and fizzgigs of superstition. b. A silly notion, an absurd crotchet. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > capriciousness > a caprice or whim fantasya1450 wantonness1531 humour1533 worm?a1534 will1542 toy?1545 whey-worm1548 wild worm1548 freak1563 crotchet1573 fancy1579 whim-wham1580 whirligig1589 caper1592 megrim1593 spleen1594 kicksey-winsey1599 fegary1600 humorousness1604 curiosity1605 conundrum1607 whimsy1607 windmill1612 buzza1616 capriccioa1616 quirka1616 flama1625 maggota1625 fantasticality1631 capruch1634 gimcrack1639 whimseycado1654 caprich1656 excursion1662 frisk1665 caprice1673 fita1680 grub1681 fantasque1697 whim1697 frolic1711 flight1717 whigmaleery1730 vagary1753 maddock1787 kink1803 fizgig1824 fad1834 whimmery1837 fantod1839 brain crack1853 whimsy-whamsy1871 tic1896 tick1900 1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 16 287 You soon take a fine fizgig into your head. c. to make fizgigs: apparently some drawing-room pastime (perhaps in sense 2). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > parlour and party games > [verb (intransitive)] > play other party or parlour games to make fizgigs1826 1826 T. H. Lister Granby (ed. 2) I. viii. 104 The Miss Cliftons..were always au courant du jour,..were the first who made fizgigs, or acted charades. 6. An informer. Australian slang. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > informing on or against > [noun] > informer wrayerc1000 wrobberc1300 discoverera1400 denunciator1474 informer1503 denouncer1533 detector1541 delatora1572 sycophant1579 inquisitor1580 scout1585 finger man1596 emphanista1631 quadruplator1632 informant1645 eastee-man1681 whiddler1699 runner1724 stag1725 snitch1785 qui tam1788 squeak1795 split1819 clype1825 telegraph1825 snitcher1827 Jack Nasty1837 pigeon1847 booker1863 squealer1865 pig1874 rounder1884 sneak1886 mouse1890 finger1899 fizgig1902 screamer1902 squeaker1903 canary1912 shopper1924 narker1932 snurge1933 cheese eater1935 singer1935 tip-off1941 top-off1941 tout1959 rat fink1961 whistle-blower1970 1902 Daily Chron. 21 Aug. 5/2 Each detective [in Melbourne] had a criminal in his employ, who was known as a ‘fizz-gig’. 1941 in S. J. Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 1953 S. J. Baker Austral. Speaks v. 124 A stool pigeon or informer, otherwise known as a fizgig, fizzer, shelf and topoff. 1955 V. Kelly Shadow iv. 45 Prior passed the word along to phizgigs that the police would appreciate information about the identity of the counterfeiters. 1973 Nation Rev. (Melbourne) No. 49. 2/2 Lenny..was described in his biog as a former ‘phizzgig’ (police informer). 1980 A. S. Veitch Run from Morning 43 You can't get nowhere without good contacts. Phizgigs don't come out of automatic bloody dispensers! Derivatives ˈfizgig v. intransitive †(a) to run or gad about (obsolete); (b) to act as an informer. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (intransitive)] scritheOE walka1200 fizgig1594 itinerate1600 to go round1636 to travel it1687 to go around1742 flitch1787 1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. F^v Why shoulde I goe gadding and fisgigging after firking flantado Amphibologies. 1955 V. Kelly Shadow i. 10 The boys suspect he's been phizgigging. 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