fizgig

Meanings

Noun

• A flirtatious, coquettish girl, inclined to gad or gallivant about; a gig, a giglot, a jillflirt.
• Something frivolous or trivial; a gewgaw, a trinket.
• A small squib-like firework that explodes with a fizzing or hissing noise.
• A spear with a barb on the end of it, used for catching fish; a type of harpoon.
• A police informer, a stool pigeon, someone employed by police to entrap someone else or provoke them to commit a crime.
• The common ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris (species)).

Verb

• To roam around in a frivolous manner; to gad about, to gallivant.
• To act as a police informer or agent provocateur.

Related

Similar words

• gig, giglot
• folderol, gewgaw, trifle, trinket

Origin

• From Middle English gig ("a frivolous woman"); the first element of the word may be from fise, from [[fist#Noun.
• fizz + gig
• Possibly from Spanish fisga ("harpoon").
• Origin Unknown.
• Origin Unknown.