jigget
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A 'jigget' of mutton is of course a gigot, and we have identified an 'ashet' as an assiette.
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- To shake up and down; jolt; jig; be in quick light motion. She's a little blackish woman, has a languishing eye, a delicious soft hand, and two pretty jiggeting feet. Female Tatler, No. 15.
- To act pertly or affectedly; go about idly; flaunt.
[Provincial English] Here you stand jiggetting, and sniggling, and looking cunning, as if there were some mighty matter of intrigue and common understanding betwixt you and me. Scott, Abbot, xix.
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A 'jigget' of mutton is of course a gigot, and we have identified an 'ashet' as an assiette.
— Penelope's Experiences in Scotland -
So, ye understand me, there was nae such smart ordering of things in the army in those days, the men not having the beef served out to them by a butcher, supplying each company or companies by a written contract, drawn up between him and the paymaster before 'sponsible witnesses; but ilka ane bringing what pleased him, either tripe, trotters, steaks, cow's-cheek, pluck, hough, spar-rib, jigget, or so forth. "
— The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith -
The four quarters he had managed to sell for mutton, like lightning -- this one buying a jigget, that one a back-ribs, and so on.
— The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith -
Vienna, who had been cutting up Europe as if it had been a jigget of mutton, had flown back, each to his own country, and that every man and horse in their armies had their faces towards France.
— The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales -
-- syne to the Market, where ye'll see lamb, beef, mutton, and veal, hanging up on cleeks, in roasting and boiling pieces -- spar-rib, jigget, shoulder, and heuk-bane, in the greatest prodigality of abundance; -- and syne down to the Duke's gate, by looking through the bonny white-painted iron-stanchels of which, ye'll see the deer running beneath the green trees; and the palace itself, in the inside of which dwells one that needs not be proud to call the king his cousin.
— The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
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- Freq. of jig,v.