gigglen.

/ˈɡɪɡ(ə)l/

Forms: Also 1600s gigle.

Etymology: < giggle v.¹

†1. = giglet n. b. Obsolete.

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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

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Gadrouillette, a minx, gigle, flirt.

a. A giggling laugh.

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the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > [noun] > giggling or tittering > instance of

tee-hee1593

gigglea1677

twitter1700

titter1725

a1677 I. Barrow Several Serm. Evil-speaking (1678) ii. 67 A small transient pleasure, a tickling the ears, wagging the lungs, forming the face into a smile, a giggle or a humme, are not to be purchased with the grievous distast..of our Neighbour.

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 57 My family is much obliged to your ladyship (cried Tabby, with a kind of hysterical giggle).

1816 J. Austen Emma I. viii. 120 You have cured her of her school-girl's giggle .

1843 Johnston in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 No. 11. 48 The solitude is disturbed by the giggle of pic-nic parties.

b. An amusing person or thing; a joke; fun; no giggle: no joke (see joke n. 3). colloquial.

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the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > that which causes or is subject of laughter

laughterOE

laughing game1530

laughing matter1549

laugh1689

scream1888

shriek1930

giggle1936

hoot1942

crack-up1961

laugher1973

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > a jest or joke

gameOE

jape1377

bourda1387

mirthc1390

mowa1393

chapec1400

skauncec1440

sport?1449

popc1540

flirt1549

jest1551

merriment1576

shifta1577

facetiae1577

gig1590

pleasantry1594

lepidity1647

rallery1653

drollery1654

wit-crack1662

joco1663

pleasance1668

joke1670

jocunditya1734

quizzification1801

funniment1826

side-splitter1834

funniness1838

quizzery1841

jocularity1846

rib-tickler1855

jocosity1859

humorism1860

gag1863

gas1914

nifty1918

mirthquaker1921

rib1929

boffo1934

giggle1936

1936 ‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid x. 108 It's no giggle being in the nick.

1958 F. Norman Bang to Rights 117 There was one geezer who was a right giggle.

1959 C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 152 Wiz told the tale as I've just done, for giggles, but even he didn't seem to think it all that laughable, I could see.

1963 ‘A. Garve’ Sea Monks vi. 169 Prob'ly have the Home Secretary on the line next... What a giggle, eh?

1963 Sunday Express 29 Sept. 17/1 As the gang burst in..one warned: ‘This is no giggle, I will shoot you.’

1966 D. Francis Flying Finish ii. 21 It's all very well you taking on Peter's job for a bit of a giggle but you surely can't mean to go on with it permanently?

1968 J. Rathbone Hand Out iv. 24 He enjoyed the course, which was mostly rather a giggle.

3. [Compare gaggle n. 1] A group of girls or young children. colloquial.

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the world > people > person > child > girl > [noun] > girls collectively

girlism1788

girlery1806

girldom1848

giggle1940

brush1941

1940 B. Ruck Pennies from Heaven xxix. 236 He had picked her out of the whole giggle of Society débutantes.

1957 J. Braine Room at Top iii. 28 A giggle of schoolgirls round a pile of brightly-coloured rayon underwear.

1967 Evening News 12 Sept. 8/3 At Mitcham..a blue M.G.B...impressed a giggle of schoolgirls.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations.

giggle-house n. Australian and New Zealand slang a psychiatric hospital.

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1919 W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 26 Giggle-house, lunatic asylum.

1943 N. Marsh Colour Scheme iv. 72 When I've taken over this joint the resemblance to a giggle-house will fade out.

giggle-pants n. Australian Services' slang working trousers, clothes; overalls.

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1944 K. Levis in Meanjin Papers III. i. 32 The Lieutenant..was a young fellow with deep blue eyes, and fresh-creased giggle pants.

giggle-suit n. = giggle-pants n.

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1942 A. G. Mitchell in Southerly Apr. Gigglesuit, a fatigue dress.

1945 J. B. Blair in Coast to Coast 133 Always smart and spruce in his Field Service uniform, Wang never looked his best in giggle-suits.

giggle-water n. slang intoxicating liquor.

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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun]

drink1042

liquor1340

bousea1350

cidera1382

dwale1393

sicera1400

barrelc1400

strong drinkc1405

watera1475

swig1548

tipple1581

amber1598

tickle-brain1598

malt pie1599

swill1602

spicket1615

lap1618

John Barleycornc1625

pottle1632

upsy Englisha1640

upsy Friese1648

tipplage1653

heartsease1668

fuddle1680

rosin1691

tea1693

suck1699

guzzlea1704

alcohol1742

the right stuff1748

intoxicant1757

lush1790

tear-brain1796

demon1799

rum1799

poison1805

fogram1808

swizzle1813

gatter1818

wine(s) and spirit(s)1819

mother's milkc1821

skink1823

alcoholics1832

jough1834

alky1844

waipiro1845

medicine1847

stimulant1848

booze1859

tiddly1859

neck oil1860

lotion1864

shrab1867

nose paint1880

fixing1882

wet1894

rabbit1895

shicker1900

jollop1920

mule1920

giggle-water1929

rookus juice1929

River Ouse1931

juice1932

lunatic soup1933

wallop1933

skimish1936

sauce1940

turps1945

grog1946

joy juice1960

1929 Amer. Speech 4 386 Some of the common names for whiskey..giggle water, nose paint, [etc.].

1946 G. Hackforth-Jones Sixteen Bells i. i. 32 Drop o' gin'll go down nicely on top of that giggle-water [sc. champagne cocktails].

1962 John o' London's 14 June 571/1 Giggle-water is any unseamanlike drink.

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In plural. With the. Continuous, uncontrollable giggling; a bout of this.

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1881 Academy 15 Oct. 289 There is much humour—here and there, however, tending to degenerate into ‘a fit of the giggles’.

1925 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 12 Apr. ii. (comic strip) I've got the giggles over something August said to a traffic cop on the way over here.

1958 J. Kesson White Bird Passes x. 146 The older children took a sudden, collective interest in the fir trees outside the window, steeling themselves against a fit of the giggles.

1989 ‘C. Roman’ Foreplay xxiii. 274 With every fiber of my being I'm fighting the giggles.

2003 Independent 7 Oct. (Review section) 21/4 Sher appeared to have corpsed in mid-take, an attack of the giggles which nicely matched the mood of mounting hysteria.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

gigglev.¹

/ˈɡɪɡ(ə)l/

Forms: Also 1500s gygyll, 1500s–1600s gigle.

Etymology: Echoic; compare the synonymous Dutch giggelen , giegelen , gi(e)chelen , Middle High German gickeln , modern German gichelen , gickeln , gichern , kichern ; also various other imitative words in English with the frequentative suffix -le suffix, as gaggle, cackle. (Johnson 1755 remarks ‘It is retained in Scotland’; but there is no scarcity of examples in English writers of the 18th cent.)

a. intransitive. To laugh continuously in a manner not uproarious, but suggestive either of foolish levity or uncontrollable amusement. Cf. snigger v.¹, titter v.² Also with on, out.

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the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > laugh in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > giggle

giggle1509

teehee1580

tittera1625

twitter1654

whickera1656

1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. xxx^v Some gygyll and lawgh without grauyte.

1566 T. Drant Wailyngs Hieremiah in tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Kj ^v Her enmies..Dyd scorne her sacred sabboth day, And gyggle out theyr fyll.

1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 130 If when thou laughest, she [sc. thy wife] weepe, when thou mournest she giggle.

1635 F. Quarles Emblemes i. viii. Epigr. 35 Foole, giggle on, And wast thy wanton breath.

1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 128 We see them..in the Park walking, giggling with their Sparks.

1770 T. Gray Let. 22 May in Corr. (1971) III. 1135 Lady Maria did not beat me, but giggled a little.

1808 J. Mayne Siller Gun (new ed.) ii. 36 Wie-things giggling i' the arms O' their fond mithers!

1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 5 Oct. (1941) 112 A quiet day..giggling and making giggle among the kind and frank-hearted young people.

1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) xv, in Writings I. 154 All men in the court laughed, and the pretty ladies giggled.

1876 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 2nd Ser. iv. 182 The striking scene..when the House of Commons was giggling over some delicious story of bribery and corruption.

b. quasi-transitive. To utter with a giggle. Also to giggle out (time): to waste in giggling. to giggle away: to do away with by giggling.

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a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia in Poems (1878) III. To Rdr. 128 These pass the glass about; the Conclave set, Giggle applause.

a1704 Compl. Servant-maid (ed. 7) 56 Be modest in your deportment or behaviour..not giggling or idling out your time.

1837 S. Smith Let. to Singleton in Wks. (1859) II. 278/1 He was always on the heel of pastime..he would giggle away the Great Charter.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	giggle
释义	gigglen. /ˈɡɪɡ(ə)l/ Forms: Also 1600s gigle. Etymology: < giggle v.¹ †1. = giglet n. b. Obsolete. 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 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Gadrouillette, a minx, gigle, flirt. 2. a. A giggling laugh. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > [noun] > giggling or tittering > instance of tee-hee1593 gigglea1677 twitter1700 titter1725 a1677 I. Barrow Several Serm. Evil-speaking (1678) ii. 67 A small transient pleasure, a tickling the ears, wagging the lungs, forming the face into a smile, a giggle or a humme, are not to be purchased with the grievous distast..of our Neighbour. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 57 My family is much obliged to your ladyship (cried Tabby, with a kind of hysterical giggle). 1816 J. Austen Emma I. viii. 120 You have cured her of her school-girl's giggle . View more context for this quotation 1843 Johnston in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 No. 11. 48 The solitude is disturbed by the giggle of pic-nic parties. b. An amusing person or thing; a joke; fun; no giggle: no joke (see joke n. 3). colloquial. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > that which causes or is subject of laughter laughterOE laughing game1530 laughing matter1549 laugh1689 scream1888 shriek1930 giggle1936 hoot1942 crack-up1961 laugher1973 the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > a jest or joke gameOE jape1377 bourda1387 mirthc1390 mowa1393 chapec1400 skauncec1440 sport?1449 popc1540 flirt1549 jest1551 merriment1576 shifta1577 facetiae1577 gig1590 pleasantry1594 lepidity1647 rallery1653 drollery1654 wit-crack1662 joco1663 pleasance1668 joke1670 jocunditya1734 quizzification1801 funniment1826 side-splitter1834 funniness1838 quizzery1841 jocularity1846 rib-tickler1855 jocosity1859 humorism1860 gag1863 gas1914 nifty1918 mirthquaker1921 rib1929 boffo1934 giggle1936 1936 ‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid x. 108 It's no giggle being in the nick. 1958 F. Norman Bang to Rights 117 There was one geezer who was a right giggle. 1959 C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 152 Wiz told the tale as I've just done, for giggles, but even he didn't seem to think it all that laughable, I could see. 1963 ‘A. Garve’ Sea Monks vi. 169 Prob'ly have the Home Secretary on the line next... What a giggle, eh? 1963 Sunday Express 29 Sept. 17/1 As the gang burst in..one warned: ‘This is no giggle, I will shoot you.’ 1966 D. Francis Flying Finish ii. 21 It's all very well you taking on Peter's job for a bit of a giggle but you surely can't mean to go on with it permanently? 1968 J. Rathbone Hand Out iv. 24 He enjoyed the course, which was mostly rather a giggle. 3. [Compare gaggle n. 1] A group of girls or young children. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > girl > [noun] > girls collectively girlism1788 girlery1806 girldom1848 giggle1940 brush1941 1940 B. Ruck Pennies from Heaven xxix. 236 He had picked her out of the whole giggle of Society débutantes. 1957 J. Braine Room at Top iii. 28 A giggle of schoolgirls round a pile of brightly-coloured rayon underwear. 1967 Evening News 12 Sept. 8/3 At Mitcham..a blue M.G.B...impressed a giggle of schoolgirls. Compounds attributive and in other combinations. giggle-house n. Australian and New Zealand slang a psychiatric hospital. ΚΠ 1919 W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 26 Giggle-house, lunatic asylum. 1943 N. Marsh Colour Scheme iv. 72 When I've taken over this joint the resemblance to a giggle-house will fade out. giggle-pants n. Australian Services' slang working trousers, clothes; overalls. ΚΠ 1944 K. Levis in Meanjin Papers III. i. 32 The Lieutenant..was a young fellow with deep blue eyes, and fresh-creased giggle pants. giggle-suit n. = giggle-pants n. ΚΠ 1942 A. G. Mitchell in Southerly Apr. Gigglesuit, a fatigue dress. 1945 J. B. Blair in Coast to Coast 133 Always smart and spruce in his Field Service uniform, Wang never looked his best in giggle-suits. giggle-water n. slang intoxicating liquor. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun] drink1042 liquor1340 bousea1350 cidera1382 dwale1393 sicera1400 barrelc1400 strong drinkc1405 watera1475 swig1548 tipple1581 amber1598 tickle-brain1598 malt pie1599 swill1602 spicket1615 lap1618 John Barleycornc1625 pottle1632 upsy Englisha1640 upsy Friese1648 tipplage1653 heartsease1668 fuddle1680 rosin1691 tea1693 suck1699 guzzlea1704 alcohol1742 the right stuff1748 intoxicant1757 lush1790 tear-brain1796 demon1799 rum1799 poison1805 fogram1808 swizzle1813 gatter1818 wine(s) and spirit(s)1819 mother's milkc1821 skink1823 alcoholics1832 jough1834 alky1844 waipiro1845 medicine1847 stimulant1848 booze1859 tiddly1859 neck oil1860 lotion1864 shrab1867 nose paint1880 fixing1882 wet1894 rabbit1895 shicker1900 jollop1920 mule1920 giggle-water1929 rookus juice1929 River Ouse1931 juice1932 lunatic soup1933 wallop1933 skimish1936 sauce1940 turps1945 grog1946 joy juice1960 1929 Amer. Speech 4 386 Some of the common names for whiskey..giggle water, nose paint, [etc.]. 1946 G. Hackforth-Jones Sixteen Bells i. i. 32 Drop o' gin'll go down nicely on top of that giggle-water [sc. champagne cocktails]. 1962 John o' London's 14 June 571/1 Giggle-water is any unseamanlike drink. Draft additions December 2006 In plural. With the. Continuous, uncontrollable giggling; a bout of this. ΚΠ 1881 Academy 15 Oct. 289 There is much humour—here and there, however, tending to degenerate into ‘a fit of the giggles’. 1925 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 12 Apr. ii. (comic strip) I've got the giggles over something August said to a traffic cop on the way over here. 1958 J. Kesson White Bird Passes x. 146 The older children took a sudden, collective interest in the fir trees outside the window, steeling themselves against a fit of the giggles. 1989 ‘C. Roman’ Foreplay xxiii. 274 With every fiber of my being I'm fighting the giggles. 2003 Independent 7 Oct. (Review section) 21/4 Sher appeared to have corpsed in mid-take, an attack of the giggles which nicely matched the mood of mounting hysteria. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2020). gigglev.¹ /ˈɡɪɡ(ə)l/ Forms: Also 1500s gygyll, 1500s–1600s gigle. Etymology: Echoic; compare the synonymous Dutch giggelen , giegelen , gi(e)chelen , Middle High German gickeln , modern German gichelen , gickeln , gichern , kichern ; also various other imitative words in English with the frequentative suffix -le suffix, as gaggle, cackle. (Johnson 1755 remarks ‘It is retained in Scotland’; but there is no scarcity of examples in English writers of the 18th cent.) a. intransitive. To laugh continuously in a manner not uproarious, but suggestive either of foolish levity or uncontrollable amusement. Cf. snigger v.¹, titter v.² Also with on, out. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > laugh in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > giggle giggle1509 teehee1580 tittera1625 twitter1654 whickera1656 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. xxx^v Some gygyll and lawgh without grauyte. 1566 T. Drant Wailyngs Hieremiah in tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Kj ^v Her enmies..Dyd scorne her sacred sabboth day, And gyggle out theyr fyll. 1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 130 If when thou laughest, she [sc. thy wife] weepe, when thou mournest she giggle. 1635 F. Quarles Emblemes i. viii. Epigr. 35 Foole, giggle on, And wast thy wanton breath. 1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 128 We see them..in the Park walking, giggling with their Sparks. 1770 T. Gray Let. 22 May in Corr. (1971) III. 1135 Lady Maria did not beat me, but giggled a little. 1808 J. Mayne Siller Gun (new ed.) ii. 36 Wie-things giggling i' the arms O' their fond mithers! 1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 5 Oct. (1941) 112 A quiet day..giggling and making giggle among the kind and frank-hearted young people. 1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) xv, in Writings I. 154 All men in the court laughed, and the pretty ladies giggled. 1876 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 2nd Ser. iv. 182 The striking scene..when the House of Commons was giggling over some delicious story of bribery and corruption. b. quasi-transitive. To utter with a giggle. Also to giggle out (time): to waste in giggling. to giggle away: to do away with by giggling. ΚΠ a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia in Poems (1878) III. To Rdr. 128 These pass the glass about; the Conclave set, Giggle applause. a1704 Compl. Servant-maid (ed. 7) 56 Be modest in your deportment or behaviour..not giggling or idling out your time. 1837 S. Smith Let. to Singleton in Wks. (1859) II. 278/1 He was always on the heel of pastime..he would giggle away the Great Charter. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † gigglev.² Forms: In 1500s gigle. Etymology: < gig n.¹ + -le suffix. Obsolete. Thesaurus » transitive. ? To turn rapidly; make giddy. Derivatives ˈgiggled adj. ΚΠ 1577 M. Hanmer tr. Socrates Scholasticus v. xiii, in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. 348 They auouch y^t tidinges (being coyned in the closet of their gigled braine) they knew not, to be as true as if they had seene them with their owne eyes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1611v.¹1509v.²1577
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gigglen.

Compounds

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gigglev.1

† gigglev.2

Derivatives

gigglev.¹

† gigglev.²