giglet

• She wept a bit, and then she began to laugh and, in fact, went on about it like a giglet wench of twenty-five. —  The Torch and Other Tales
• I tried, by an innocent stratagem, to frighten her from the castle by introducing a figure through a trap-door and warning her, as if by a voice from the dead, to retreat from thence; but the giglet is wilful, and is running upon her fate Finding Gaunt, although covetous and communicative, too faithful a servant to his wicked master to take any active steps against his commands, Fitzosborne applied himself to old Ursely, whom he found more tractable. —  Waverley
• I tried by an innocent stratagem to frighten her from the castle, by introducing a figure through a trap-door, and warning her, as if by a voice from the dead, to retreat from thence; but the giglet is wilful, and is running upon her fate Finding Gaunt, although covetous and communicative, too faithful a servant to his wicked master to take any active steps against his commands, Fitzosborne applied himself to old Ursely, whom he found more tractable. —  Waverley — Complete
• There's nae a burnie giglet rare —  The Book of Humorous Verse
• But what if some young giglet on the green, —  Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete

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