10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GIGLET»
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Dictionary of obsolete and provincial English: containing ...
A fulling mill. Gigit. See Fisk. Giglet, 1 s. A wanton wench ; giglot, >a loose
woman. Still giggle, J used in some dialects to signify a flighty girl, or one fond of
romping. In MSS. of the 15th cent, this word is found under the forms gygbote,
gyblot, ...
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The Works of William Shakespeare
201, 209 (twice). giglet (or giglot), wanton, giddy: a giglet weneh, v. 64; O giglet
Fortune, 672. giglets (or giglots), wantons, jades: Away with those giglets, i. 516 (“
A Giggle, or Gigglet. Gadrouillette.” . . . “ Gadrouillette : A minx, gigle, flirt, callet, ...
William Shakespeare, Alexander Dyce, 1867
3
A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, Derivative ...
Giglet, giglot, sb. A giddy, laughing girl. ' Gig, J'S* Giglet. The fundamental idea is
rapid, reciprocating, or whirling action, whence the O. E. gig, a top. " To see great
Hercules whipping a gig." Love's Labour Lost. To jig is to move rapidly to and ...
John Christopher Atkinson, 1868
Toupie. A gig, or casting-top.” Cotgrave's Fr. and Engl. Dict.), 201, 209 (twice).
giglet (or giglot), wanton, giddy: a giglet wench, v. 64; O giglet Fortune, 672.
giglets (or giglots), wantons, jades: Away with those giglets, i. 516 (“ AGiggle, or
Gigglet.
William Shakespeare, Alexander Dyce, 1868
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The Works of William Shakespeare: Preface. Addenda. Glossary ...
A gig, or casting-top.” Cotgrave's Fr. and Engl. Diet.), ii. 201, 209 (twice). giglet (or
giglot), wanton, giddy: a giglet wench, v. 64; O giglet Fortune, vii. 672. ' giglets (or
giglots), wantons, jades: Away with those giglets, i. 516 (“ AGiggle, or Gigglet.
William Shakespeare, Alexander Dyce, 1867
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The vision of Rubeta: an epic story of the island of ...
Not that pert, giglet, lizard-visag'd dame, xxviii, 7, ed. Berol. 1766, or Cap. 4. of
the anc. edd. I am inclined to think, that the practice of the priests in the middle
ages, at the administration of baptism, to rub with their saliva the nostrils and ears
of ...
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A glossary; or, Collection of words ... which have been ...
Giglet, Giglot, or Gigle. A wanton wench. Junius produces a number of words
from the Anglo- Saxon, to which it may have affinity ; as jajol, jaejl, 8tc. all
meaning lascivious; yet his editor, Lye, doubts whether it be not derived from
gigge, which, ...
8
Love, Sex, and Marriage: A Historical Thesaurus
... 281 gidgy, 68 giefan: ±, 401 gieman, 80 gift, 399; - of oneself/one's body, 154
giftbur, 415 giftian, 401 giftleoth, 400 giftlic, 333, 383 gig, 279 gigge, 279 gigle,
280 gigler, 280 giglet, 279 gigletry, 263 giglet-wise, 282 giglot. See giglet gigly,
267 ...
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The Tragedie of Cymbeline
For ioy whereof, The fam'd CaJJibulan, who was once at point (Oh giglet Fortune)
to mafter Ccefars Sword, Made Luds-Towne with reioycing-Fires bright, 39 34, 35
. Seas ... Egge-Jhels ... Surges,] Dyce ii, iii. giglot Mai. Steev. et cet. Seas.
William Shakespeare, 2001
Miss Alice, by St Nicholas, dam by Brutandorf, grandam, Scancataldi, by Sancho
D. of Leeds's b. f. by Lottery, out of Lady Mowbray Mr Metcalfe's br. f. by Voltaire,
out of Giglet Mr Jaques's br. c. by Waverley, out of Comedy Mr Smith's b. c. Tom, ...
