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Hereupon it fell out, after the expiring of a scantling of weeks, that Master Carvel became as jealous as a tiger, and entered into a very profound suspicion that his new-married gixy did keep a-buttock-stirring with others.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Hereupon it fell out, after the expiring of a scantling of weeks, that Master Carvel became as jealous as a tiger, and entered into a very profound suspicion that his new-married gixy did keep a-buttock-stirring with others.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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By the cenomanic paunch and gixy, said Epistemon, Euripides has written, and makes
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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Master Carvel became as jealous as a tiger, and entered into a very profound suspicion that his new-married gixy did keep a-buttock-stirring with others.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
yarb commented on the word gixy
Hereupon it fell out, after the expiring of a scantling of weeks, that Master Carvel became as jealous as a tiger, and entered into a very profound suspicion that his new-married gixy did keep a-buttock-stirring with others.
- Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel, bk 3 ch. XXVIII, tr. Urquhart
Presumably means wench or similar.
October 30, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word gixy
I wonder what keeping a-buttock-stirring is actually like...
October 30, 2008
yarb commented on the word gixy
I understand it's very much like a feat of the loose-coat skirmish.
October 30, 2008
reesetee commented on the word gixy
Just one buttock?
October 30, 2008