Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A frivolous, gadding girl.
- noun A firework, made of damp powder, which makes a hissing or fizzing noise when ignited: in one form called by boys a volcano.
- noun A corrupt form of
fishgig .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A firework, made of damp powder, which makes a fizzing or hissing noise when it explodes.
- noun A gadding, flirting girl.
- noun obsolete A fishgig.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
fishgig . - noun archaic A small
squib-like firework . - noun Australia, slang, obsolete A
police informer .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
- noun a firework that fizzes as it moves
Etymologies
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Examples
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November 15, 2007 at 3:10 pm thx i tot so akshuly, but wuznt shure i iz not naetiv inglish speakur so stuf liek harbls get bai me im afrayed aye fizgig says:
Lolwerdz & Cheezwerdz - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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NB: sorry for the anger… just kinda annoying, and i had a bad day fizgig says:
Lolwerdz & Cheezwerdz - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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November 4, 2007 at 10:15 am no lolagator for funny reptiles? fizgig says:
Lolwerdz & Cheezwerdz - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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Juan defends his dealings with the gay fizgig Fifine as a step to the fuller appreciation of Elvire; he demands freedom to escape only as a means of possessing more surely and intimately what he has.
Robert Browning Herford, C H 1905
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Deliverance Dobbins, a frumpish, fizgig of a maid, ever complaining of bodily ills though her chuffy cheeks were red as pippins, reported that one day when she had gone for simples she had seen strange, dead things in the jars of M. Picot's dispensary.
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Chairmen splashed us as they passed; and impudent dandies powdered and patched and laced and bewigged like any fizgig of a girl would have elbowed us from the wall to the gutter for the sport of seeing M. Radisson's moccasins slimed.
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Juan defends his dealings with the gay fizgig Fifine as a step to the fuller appreciation of Elvire; he demands freedom to escape only as a means of possessing more surely and intimately what he has.
Robert Browning 1892
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"And you'll be hanged if you do," said Jack, as he walked out of the room; "so it's all one either way, old fizgig."
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ftl – “full of lose”? something really unpleasant? fizgig says:
Lolwerdz & Cheezwerdz - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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_fizgig_, while the heads of dogs appear over the gunwales of the canoes, nearly a dozen in each.
The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure Mayne Reid 1850
alguien commented on the word fizgig
A type of firework that makes a loud hissing sound.
or
A gadding, flirting girl.
April 5, 2007
halcyon_words commented on the word fizgig
I love it that harpoon is a hyponym of fizgig.
January 27, 2012