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Definition of Fisgig
1. fizgig [n -S] - See also: fizgig
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fisgig
Literary usage of Fisgig
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shropshire Word-book: A Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Etc., Used by Georgina Frederica Jackson (1879)
"fisgig [fiz'gig], (1) sb. this term implies a kind of loose ... A drop o' fisgig
to cut yore throat.' FISK [fi's'k], vn to wander ; to roam about idly. ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1878)
"Let hollie wand threate, Let fisgig be beate. 7 A wand in thy hand, though ye
fight not at all, makes youth to their businesse better to fall. ..."
3. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"2 (Lacy). firk up, to trim up. Shirley, Constant Maid, ii. 1 (Playfair). fisgig,
a light, worthless female, fond of gadding about. Tusser, Husbandry, § 77. ..."
4. Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie by Thomas Tusser (1878)
"Let hollie wand threate, Let fisgig be beate. 7 A wand in thy hand, though ye
fight not at all, makes youth to their businesse better to fall. ..."
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