fizgig

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You've got one of your fits on again, "cried Frank contemptuously;" what a gunpowder fizgig you are! "

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  1. A frivolous, gadding girl. For when you looke for praises sound, Then are you for light fisgigs crownde. Gosson, Pleasant Quippes (1596).
  2. A firework, made of damp powder, which makes a hissing or fizzing noise when ignited: in one form called by boys a volcano. If there was a struggle in Shelley's breast between the rival attractions of wisdom on the lips of an elderly philosopher and of fiery fisgigs in the hands of a pair of gleeful boys, the struggle was quickly decided in favour of youth and frolic and fireworks. E. Dowden, Shelley, I. 306.
  3. A corrupt form of fishgig.

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  • You've got one of your fits on again, "cried Frank contemptuously;" what a gunpowder fizgig you are! " —  In Honour's Cause A Tale of the Days of George the First
  • And didn’t snigger like the ginger fizgig. —  Krindlesyke
  • We saw no fizgig, shield, nor boomerang; it is probable that they may have such weapons but did not produce them from a dislike at parting with them; but the knives, spears, and hammers which did not require much labour to manufacture were always ready for barter, particularly the first, but the greater part were, like Peter Pindar's razors, only made for sale Altogether we saw about forty natives of whom ten were boys: they were in most respects similar to their neighbours, having the same long curly hair and slight figure; they did not appear to be a navigating tribe, for we saw no canoes, nor did we observe any trees in the woods with the bark stripped, of which material they are usually made; and, from the timid manner they approached the water, it is more than probable that they are not much accustomed even to swimming. —  Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2
  • Juan defends his dealings with the gay fizgig Fifine as a step to the fuller appreciation of Elvire; he demands freedom to escape only as a means of possessing more surely and intimately what he has. —  Robert Browning
  • Deliverance Dobbins, a frumpish, fizgig of a maid, ever complaining of bodily ills though her chuffy cheeks were red as pippins, reported that one day when she had gone for simples she had seen strange, dead things in the jars of M. Picot's dispensary. —  Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade
 

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  1. Also fisgig; from fizz + gig or gig, gig being vaguely used.
 

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