giglet

• “Yesterday I took a break from the giglet and the ball-toting Gaul to snap a few more photos of our village.”

  pente - French Word-A-Day

• “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

• “In that crowd, as I am credibly informed, were gathered -- but none could distinguish them -- gentle and simple, maiden ladies with their servants or housekeepers, side by side with longshoremen, hovellers, giglet maids, and urchins; all alike magnetised and drawn thither by the Man and the Hour.”

  The Mayor of Troy

• “-- "Mort-Dieu! if, an hour before the battle of Towton, some wizard had shown me in his glass this glimpse of the gardens of the Tower, that giglet for a queen, and that squire of dames for a king, I had not slain my black destrier (poor Malech!), that I might conquer or die for Edward Earl of March.”

  The Last of the Barons — Volume 02

• “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. ”

  Waverley — Volume 1

• “The Norsemen were apparently as sexist as we are: all of the following, flag, giglet, gimmer, skit, and slattern generally mean ` low, contemptible woman '; only may ` maiden' has survived with specific reference to women without pejoration.”

  Verbatim: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3

• “That self-wlird, head-strong giglet, sM Does ought ava she likes for me,”

  Internet Archive: Poetical attempts

• “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.””

  Waverley

• “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. '”

  The Waverley

• “1410: (Oh giglet Fortune) to master Caesars Sword,”

  Cymbeline (1623 First Folio Edition)

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