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English
Noun
gigget (plural giggets)
- Obsolete spelling of gigot.
c. 1619–1622, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Double Marriage. A Tragedy.”, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies. , , London: J Macock , for John Martyn, Henry Herringman, and Richard Marriot, published 1679, →OCLC, Act III, scene i, page 104, column 2:Guard, Treaſon, treaſon, treaſon. / Boatſ[wain]. Cut the ſlaevs to giggets.
1623, G M[arkham], “Of the Outward and Actiue Knowledge of the Hous-wife; and of Her Skill in Cookerie; as Sallets of All Sorts, with Flesh, Fish, Sauces, Pastrie, Banqueting-stuffe, and Ordering of Great Feasts: Also Distillations, Perfumes, Conceited Secrets, and Preseruing Wine of All Sorts”, in Covntrey Contentments, or The English Husvvife. , London: Printed by I. B. for R. Iackson, , →OCLC, page 120:Next them all ſorts of Roſt-meates, of which the greateſt first, as Chine of Beeffe or Surloine, the Gigget or Legges of Mutton, Gooſſe, Swan, Veale, Pig, Capon, and ſuch like.
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