fizgig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪzɡɪɡ/
ipa: /ˈfɪzˌɡɪɡ/
Forms: form: fizgigs
Etymology: From Middle English gig (“a frivolous woman”); the first element of the word may be from fise (“an instance of flatulence”), from fist (“an act of breaking wind”).
Senses: examples: text: You thinke (perhaps) to win great fame / by uncouth sutes and fashions wilde: / All such as know you thinke the same, / but in ech kind you are beguilde; / For when you looke for praises sound; / Then are you for light fisgiggs crownde.
ref: 1596, Stephen Gosson, Pleasant Quippes for Vpstart Nevvfangled Gentlevvomen, London: Imprinted at London by Richard Iohnes, →OCLC; reprinted as [John Payne Collier, editor], Pleasant Quippes for Upstart Newfangled Women. By Stephen Gosson. A Treatise on the Pride and Abuse of Women. By Charles Bansley. The First from a Copy with the Author’s Autograph; the Last from a Unique Impression by Thomas Reynalde, London: Reprinted by T. Richards, for the executors of the late C. Richards, 100, St. Martin's Lane, 1841, →OCLC, page 13
text: I don't see why Gertrude is not young enough and strong enough to take care of her child herself, without having a fine madman of a nurse to help her. If she cannot it is time she is learned;—anyway, I will keep no such fizgigs about here.
ref: 1864, Geraldine E[ndsor] Jewsbury, chapter XXX, in The Sorrows of Gentility, 2nd edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly, →OCLC, page 180:
glosses: A flirtatious, coquettish girl, inclined to gad or gallivant about; a gig, a giglot, a jillflirt.
examples: text: "[…] Lillie did the best she could, poor girl! but I could see all the time she was worrying about her new fizgigs and folderols in the house.[…]" / "[…] Young mistresses, you see, have nerves all over their house at first. They tremble at every dent in their furniture, and wink when you come near it, as if you were going to hit it a blow; but that wears off in time, and they learn to take it easy."
ref: 1871, Harriet Beecher Stowe, “John’s Birthday”, in Pink and White Tyranny. A Society Novel, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC, page 147:
text: Mr. Leslie Stephen's style is exactly the opposite to Canon [Charles] Kingsley's. We have no fizgigs of fine writing for fine writing's sake, or for the sake of anything else. God is not adjured nor complimented in every other page. Christianity and muscles find their proper places. It is a perfect relief after the flabby, effeminate rhetoric with which we are now deluged, to read Mr. Leslie Stephen's terse and masculine style.
ref: 1874 July 1, “Belles Lettres”, in The Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review, volume CII, number CCI (New Series, volume XLVI, number I), London: Trübner & Co, 57 & 59, Ludgate Hill, →OCLC, pages 291–292:
text: Tawdry has been applied to some of the pianoforte "fizgigs" that [Franz] Liszt attached to pieces he adapted from themes by others; that may or may not be a justifiable designation, but we look in vain for any such treatment in the Dead March.
ref: 1910 May 28, “Wanted—a Funeral March”, in Musical News, volume XXXVIII, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 566:
glosses: Something frivolous or trivial; a gewgaw, a trinket.
Synonyms: sense: flirtatious, coquettish girl
word: gig
sense: flirtatious, coquettish girl
word: giglot
sense: something frivolous or trivial
word: folderol
sense: something frivolous or trivial
word: gewgaw
sense: something frivolous or trivial
word: trifle
sense: something frivolous or trivial
word: trinket