fizgig

fizgig englannista suomeksi

1. sähikäinen

2. ahrain

1. atrain

fizgig englanniksi

1. A flirtatious, coquettish girl, inclined to gad or gallivant about; a 3|gig, a giglot, a jillflirt. (defdate)

2. 1596, (w), ''Pleasant Quippes for Vpstart Nevvfangled Gentlevvomen'', London: Imprinted at London by Richard Iohnes, (OCLC); reprinted as &91;(w), editor&93;, ''Pleasant Quippes for Upstart Newfangled Women. By Stephen Gosson. A Treatise on the Pride and Abuse of Women. By (w). The First from a Copy with the Author’s Autograph; the Last from a Unique Impression by Thomas Reynalde'', London: Reprinted by T. Richards, for the executors of the late C. Richards, 100, (w), 1841, (OCLC), page 13:

You thinke (perhaps) to win great fame / by uncouth sutes and fashions wilde: / All such as know you thinke the same, / but in ech kind you are beguilde; / For when you looke for praises sound; / Then are you for light fisgiggs crownde.

3. (quote-book)

4. Something frivolous or trivial; a gewgaw, a trinket.

5. (quote-book)" / "… Young mistresses, you see, have nerves all over their house at first. They tremble at every dent in their furniture, and wink when you come near it, as if you were going to hit it a blow; but that wears off in time, and they learn to take it easy."

6. (quote-journal)|date=1 July 1874|volume=CII|issue=CCI (New Series, volume XLVI, number I)|pages=291–292|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=DFcVAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA291|oclc=613024433|passage=Mr. (w)'s style is exactly the opposite to Canon Kingsley|Charles Kingsley's. We have no fizgigs of fine writing for fine writing's sake, or for the sake of anything else. God is not adjured nor complimented in every other page. Christianity and muscles find their proper places. It is a perfect relief after the flabby, effeminate rhetoric with which we are now deluged, to read Mr. Leslie Stephen's terse and masculine style.

7. (quote-journal)

8. To roam around in a frivolous manner; to 2|gad about, to gallivant.

9. 1594, Nashe|Thomas Nashe, ''Unfortunate Traveller|The Vnfortunate Traueller. Or, The Life of Iacke Wilton'', London: Printed by Thomas Scarlet for Burby|Cuthbert Burby, & are to be sold at his shop adioyning to the Exchange, London|Exchange, (OCLC); republished in (w), editor, ''Thomas Nashe: Selected Works'' (Routledge Revivals), Abingdon, Oxon.; New York, N.Y.: (w), 2015, (ISBN), page 221:

Why should I go gadding and fizgigging after firking flantado amphibologies?

10. 1782, (w), ''Mount Henneth: A Novel'', London: Printed for T. Lowndes, (OCLC); republished in ''The Novels of Swift, Bage, and Cumberland;'' ... (Ballantyne's Novelist's Library; IX), London: Published by Hurst, Robinson, and Co. 90, (w), and 8, Mall, London|Pall Mall; printed by Ballantyne|James Ballantyne and Company, at the Border Press, Edinburgh, 1824, (OCLC), pages 147–148:

(..) I likes you because yo're none of the fiz-gigging misses, with their roles and pomatums, and tippets, and trumpery; you're a sober minded young woman, one belike as wull keep close house, and mind business: (..)

11. A small squib-like firework that explodes with a fizzing or hissing noise.

12. (quote-journal)| date=10 September 1853| volume=VIII| issue=181| page=45, column 2| pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=wAsHAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA45| oclc=321293193| passage=What the Chevalier Mortram is about to do no one is supposed to know but himself. In the impenetrable breast of the artist lies the determination (..) whether a Devil-among-the-Tailors shall end his freaks with a grand explosion of flower-pots and fizzgigs; (..) or a fiery dragon to dart and wriggle and spit fire over the heads of the spectators.

13. (quote-book)| year=1864| page=44| pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dm4OAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA44| oclc=38709671| passage=Very different were our fizgigs at Brambles'. Neither powder nor pepper (you know) was adulterated in those days, and if you made a fizgig, why it blossomed and starred like a golden thistle, flashed into a myriad sparklets like a tiny fountain for Queen Mab and her troupe to dance around.

14. (quote-book)|chapter=Brother Peter| title=The Democracy. A Novel (..) In Three Volumes| location=London| publisher=(w), Piccadilly| year=1876| volume=I| pages=71–72| pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=ztUBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA72|oclc=22773617| passage=And one day fortune played into his hand by sending a customer to the shop for two ounces of gunpowder, when Paul was standing by. / "Do you keep gunpowder, then?" said Paul, with kindling eyes, as the man left the shop. / "Yes," answered his brother innocently, "but we only sell it to grown-up people. Boys wouldn't know what to do with it." / "Wouldn't they, though? Why, you can make fizgigs of it that blaze like Vesuvius, the burning mountain."

15. 2008, (w), in ''The End'', St. Paul, Minn.: (w), (ISBN); republished London: (w), 2011, (ISBN), page 35:

Half a dozen boys in linen blazers, their hair in uniform flattops, were shooting off fizgigs in his alley and paid him no mind as he pretended to use his key to unlock the alley-oop door.

16. A spear with a barb on the end of it, used for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals; a type of harpoon.

(synonyms)

17. (quote-book)&93;|title=Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique. (..)| edition=rev. and enl. (2nd)| location=London| publisher=Printed by Richard Bishop for Iacob Blome and Richard Bishop| year=1638| section=book I| page=24| pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=mlJBAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA24| oclc=278540753| passage=At day break we were cloſe by the ''Peninſule Mozambique'' (part of ''Quiloa'') inhabited by ''Negroes''; abundant in Gold, Silver, and Ambergreece; (..) An Armado of Dolphins aſſaulted us; and ſuch we ſaulted as we could intice to taſte our hooks or fiſſgiggs: (..)

18. (quote-book)| location=Newcastle-upon-Tyne| publisher=Printed and published by Mackenzie and Dent, Newcastle Cathedral|St. Nicholas' Church-yard| year=1811| page=357| pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=ACMQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA357| oclc=35036328| passage=The inhabitants of this bay appeared to possess, in general, a very pointed difference from, if not a superiority over, those of New South Wales, particularly in their net-works. There was no doubt but they were provided with nets for catching very large fish, or animals; (..) Mr. Flinders|Matthew Flinders was of opinion, that this mode of procuring their food would cause a characteristic difference between the manners, and perhaps the dispositions of these people, and of those who mostly depend upon the spear or fizgig for a supply.

19. A police informer, a pigeon, someone employed by police to entrap someone else or provoke them to commit a crime.

20. (quote-book) and the Castlereagh Street Push|edition=3rd|location=Coffs Harbour, N.S.W.|publisher=Pip Wilson|month=January|year=2007|page=191|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=NcO7t8G-yQ8C&pg=PA191|isbn=978-0-9803487-0-5|passage="Fizgigs?" Wood asks. / "Pimps. A fizgig is an ''agent provocateur'' – he gets you to do something you shouldn't do and that will hang you in court. A pimp gets you to do something innocuous that will still hang you.(..)"

21. To act as a police informer or agent provocateur.

22. (quote-journal) The report of Mr. (w) and his colleagues may indeed have tended to diminish "fiz-gigging" (..)

23. (vern) ((taxfmt), syn. (taxfmt)).

24. (quote-book), (w)| year=1853| page=111, paragraph 318| pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=AzxRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA111| oclc=3875407| passage=vulgaris|(smallcaps). Ragwort: Yellow-weed: Yellow elshinders, and in the Merse &91;Berwickshire&93;, Fizz-gigs.—A common weed in old pastures and by road-sides.