Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To shake up and down; jolt; jig; be in quick light motion.
- To act pertly or affectedly; go about idly; flaunt.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
leg (of meat, regarded as food); agigot of beef or lamb or other meat. - verb dated To
gad ; to move from one place to another in a (seemingly)flippant oridle manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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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 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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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 David Macbeth Moir 1824
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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, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824
jaime_d commented on the word jigget
From "C. Musonius Rufus" by Guy Davenport
January 19, 2010