fizgig

Etymology 1
From ; the first element of the word may be from, from.

Noun

 * 1)  A flirtatious, coquettish girl, inclined to gad or gallivant about; a gig, a giglot, a jillflirt.
 * 2) * 1596,, Pleasant Quippes for Vpstart Nevvfangled Gentlevvomen, London: Imprinted at London by Richard Iohnes, ; reprinted as &#91;, editor&#93;, Pleasant Quippes for Upstart Newfangled Women. By Stephen Gosson. A Treatise on the Pride and Abuse of Women. By . 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, , 1841,  , page 13:
 * 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.
 * 1)  Something frivolous or trivial; a gewgaw, a trinket.
 * 1)  Something frivolous or trivial; a gewgaw, a trinket.

Synonyms

 * gig,

Verb

 * 1)  To roam around in a frivolous manner; to gad about, to gallivant.
 * 2) * 1594, Tho[mas] Nashe, The Vnfortunate Traueller. Or, The Life of Iacke Wilton, London: Printed by T[homas] Scarlet for C[uthbert] Burby, & are to be sold at his shop adioyning to the Exchange, ; republished in, editor, Thomas Nashe: Selected Works (Routledge Revivals), Abingdon, Oxon.; New York, N.Y.: , 2015, ISBN 978-1-138-88759-6 , page 221:
 * Why should I go gadding and fizgigging after firking flantado amphibologies?
 * 1) * 1782,, Mount Henneth: A Novel, London: Printed for T. Lowndes, ; republished in The Novels of Swift, Bage, and Cumberland; [...] (Ballantyne's Novelist's Library; IX), London: Published by Hurst, Robinson, and Co. 90, , and 8, Pall Mall; printed by James Ballantyne and Company, at the Border Press, Edinburgh, 1824,  , pages 147–148:
 * 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)  A small squib-like firework that explodes with a fizzing or hissing noise.
 * 2) * 2008,, in The End, St. Paul, Minn.: , ISBN 978-1-55597-498-5 ; republished London: , 2011, ISBN 978-0-09-955576-6 , page 35:
 * 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.
 * 1) * 2008,, in The End, St. Paul, Minn.: , ISBN 978-1-55597-498-5 ; republished London: , 2011, ISBN 978-0-09-955576-6 , page 35:
 * 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.
 * 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.

Etymology 3
Possibly from.

Noun

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

Translations

 * Bulgarian: тризъбец
 * Cherokee: ᏗᎦᏘᏍᏗ
 * Danish: lyster
 * Finnish:
 * Galician: fisga, francada
 * Georgian:, კარჭაპი
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, lystregaffel
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: ,

Etymology 4
Origin.

Noun

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

Verb

 * 1)  To act as a police informer or agent provocateur.

Synonyms

 * ,, ; See also Thesaurus:rat out

Etymology 5


Origin.

Noun

 * 1)    (, syn. ).