Definition of "fizgig" in Anglais

noun

1. (archaic) A flirtatious, coquettish girl, inclined to gad or gallivant about; a gig, a giglot, a jillflirt.

   • 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.

2. (archaic) Something frivolous or trivial; a gewgaw, a trinket.

verb

1. (archaic, intransitive) To roam around in a frivolous manner; to gad about, to gallivant.

   • Why should I go gadding and fizgigging after firking flantado amphibologies?
   • […] I likes you because yo're none of the fiz-gigging misses, with their roles and pomatums, and tippets, and trumpery; you're a sober minded young woman, one belike as wull keep close house, and mind business: […]

noun

1. (archaic) A small squib-like firework that explodes with a fizzing or hissing noise.

   • Half a dozen boys in linen blazers, their hair in uniform flattops, were shooting off fizgigs in his alley and paid him no mind as he pretended to use his key to unlock the alley-oop door.

noun

1. (fishing) A spear with a barb on the end of it, used for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals; a type of harpoon.

noun

1. (Australia, slang, dated) A police informer, a stool pigeon, someone employed by police to entrap someone else or provoke them to commit a crime.

verb

1. (Australia, slang, dated) To act as a police informer or agent provocateur.

noun

1. (Scotland, rare) common ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris, syn. Senecio jacobaea).