Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A frivolous, gadding girl.
- n. A firework, made of damp powder, which makes a hissing or fizzing noise when ignited: in one form called by boys a volcano.
- n. A corrupt form of fishgig.
Wiktionary
- n. Australia, slang, obsolete A police informer.
- n. alternative spelling of fishgig.
- n. archaic A small squib-like firework.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A fishgig.
- n. A firework, made of damp powder, which makes a fizzing or hissing noise when it explodes.
- n. A gadding, flirting girl.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
- n. a firework that fizzes as it moves
Etymologies
- From unknown + Middle English gig ("frivolous woman"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“November 4, 2007 at 10:15 am no lolagator for funny reptiles? fizgig says:”
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“November 15, 2007 at 3:10 pm thx i tot so akshuly, but wuznt shure i iz not naetiv inglish speakur so stuf liek harbls get bai me im afrayed aye fizgig says:”
Lolwerdz & Cheezwerdz - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“NB: sorry for the anger… just kinda annoying, and i had a bad day fizgig says:”
Lolwerdz & Cheezwerdz - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“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.”
“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.”
“Chairmen splashed us as they passed; and impudent dandies powdered and patched and laced and bewigged like any fizgig of a girl would have elbowed us from the wall to the gutter for the sport of seeing M. Radisson's moccasins slimed.”
“And you'll be hanged if you do," said Jack, as he walked out of the room; "so it's all one either way, old fizgig.”
“ftl – “full of lose”? something really unpleasant? fizgig says:”
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“_fizgig_, while the heads of dogs appear over the gunwales of the canoes, nearly a dozen in each.”
“You've got one of your fits on again, "cried Frank contemptuously;" what a gunpowder fizgig you are! ”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fizgig’.
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Nincompoopery
Words that clatter and tumble
nincompoop, pettyfoggery, gaberlunzie, cattywampus, weisenheimer, katzenjammer, hecklephone, loblolly, carriwitchet, flibbertyjibbet, hornswoggle, thimblerigger and 161 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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List of Silly Words
A list of silly, strange, and generally unusual words.
decemnovenarianize, mammothrept, spaneria, spanogyny, lexiphanic, allorgasmia, marcous, leighster, psaphonic, exsibiliation, paralian, phobophobia and 24 more...
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motley assortment
a motley crew of words i enjoy
sense datum sensa..., sense datum, sens..., concinnity, fulguration, puissant, ensorcell, synaesthesia, barmecide, breatharian, alcazar, faineant, yelept and 19 more...
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ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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Reckon's Word List
Turned On
tintinnabulation, talisman, soliloquy, serendipity, quintessential, rhapsody, plethora, myrrh, palimpsest, panoply, mellifluous, loquacious and 102 more...
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derogatory terms I should use more often
assmarmot, scuzzbucket, scumbag, sleazebag, slimeball, swamp donkey, barathrum, cacafuego, clarty-paps, comprachico, ephemeromorph, creodont and 162 more...
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ashton's Words
genocide, boingy, umwelt, zeitgeist, fungible, vorpal, spawn, discordian, fnord, surreptitious, xyzzy, corruption and 122 more...
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xyzprincess's Words
crabwise, virtu, peripatetic, idyll, trencherman, equivocate, flummery, hoi polloi, pixilated, albatross, wangle, bodacious and 170 more...
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dann's words
just some nice words that i like.
beamish, snark, sundry, contrariwise, salsify, cephalopod, omphaloskepsis, grok, resistentialism, peristerophobia, aglet, ferrule and 125 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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sarahatlee's Words
pants, nekkid, schadenfreude, unseasonably, illicit, glaswegian, cripes, futz, drawers, scupper, coulrophobic, redacted and 254 more...
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BetaRish's Words
brigand, teetotum, internship, thribble, neologism, readies, resfest, tohubohu, tanzen, regression, nutlet, bandolier and 111 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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What's next here?
thunderhead, thundercloud, cumulus, cumulonimbus, fibrous, hazy, glaciated, cirrus, nimbus, meteorology, fahrenheit, thermoscope and 285 more...
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sacred, beautiful secret jewels.
you know, it's those types of words i'll only be able to use on very, very special occasions with very, very special company on a day when i'm feeling especially enlightened. these words, their sou...
luftmensch, zenzizenzizenzic, bibliobibuli, enfleurage, esculent, adulticide, petrichor, gobbledygook, astrobleme, fritinancy, anastomose, cribrate and 27 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for fizgig.
halcyon_words I love it that harpoon is a hyponym of fizgig. Jan 27, 2012
alguien A type of firework that makes a loud hissing sound.
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A gadding, flirting girl. Apr 4, 2007