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  • noun Plural form of fizgig.

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  • It gots bobble opnurs an skroodryverz an poyntee ends an fizgigs an wahtnawts… it Berry Berry handee!

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  • When he argues that philosophies and theologies are the fizgigs of the brain, its Fifines the false which lead us onward to Elvire the true, he expresses an idea which Browning has repeatedly expressed in Ferishtah's Fancies and which, certainly, was an idea he had made his own.

    Robert Browning Dowden, Edward 1904

  • The dusky fishermen, standing in the canoes and bending over, now to this side, now that, plunge down their spears and fizgigs, rarely failing to bring up a fish of one sort or another; the struggling victim shaken off into the bottom of the canoe, there gets its death-blow from the boys.

    The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure Mayne Reid 1850

  • Their knives were formed of mussel-shells of great size, and were so sharp that they could cut the hardest wood with them, as well as bone, out of which they made the fizgigs they used for killing fish.

    Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

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  • JM considers fizgigs and flibberty gibbets to differ substantially in their theoretical approach to most serious things

    February 6, 2009