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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  1. 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.
  2. 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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