different between firework vs fizgig

English

Etymology

fire +? work

Noun

firework (plural fireworks)

1. A device using gunpowder and other chemicals which, when lit, emits a combination of coloured flames, sparks, whistles or bangs, and sometimes made to rocket high into the sky before exploding, used for entertainment or celebration.

Translations

See also

Further reading

• firework on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f?z???/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f?z????/
• Hyphenation: fiz?gig

Etymology 1

From Middle English gig (“a frivolous woman”); the first element of the word may be from fise (“an instance of flatulence”), from fist (“an act of breaking wind”).

Noun

fizgig (plural fizgigs)

1. (archaic) A flirtatious, coquettish girl, inclined to gad or gallivant about; a gig, a giglot, a jillflirt. [From 1520s.]
   • 1596, Stephen Gosson, Pleasant Quippes for Vpstart Nevvfangled Gentlevvomen, London: Imprinted at London by Richard Iohnes, ?OCLC; reprinted as [John Payne Collier, editor], Pleasant Quippes for Upstart Newfangled Women. By Stephen Gosson. A Treatise on the Pride and Abuse of Women. By Charles Bansley. 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, St. Martin's Lane, 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.
2. (archaic) Something frivolous or trivial; a gewgaw, a trinket.

Synonyms

• (flirtatious, coquettish girl): gig, giglot
• (something frivolous or trivial): folderol, gewgaw, trifle, trinket

Verb

fizgig (third-person singular simple present fizgigs, present participle fizgigging, simple past and past participle fizgigged)

1. (archaic, intransitive) To roam around in a frivolous manner; to gad about, to gallivant.
   • 1594, Tho[mas] Nashe, The Vnfortunate Traueller. Or, The Life of Iacke Wilton, London: Printed by T[homas] Scarlet for C[uthbert] Burby, & are to be sold at his shop adioyning to the Exchange, ?OCLC; republished in Stanley Wells, editor, Thomas Nashe: Selected Works (Routledge Revivals), Abingdon, Oxon.; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 2015, ?ISBN, page 221:

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

   • 1782, Robert Bage, 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, Cheapside, and 8, Pall Mall; printed by 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: […]

Etymology 2

fizz +? gig (“a whirling thing”)

Noun

fizgig (plural fizgigs)

1. (archaic) A small squib-like firework that explodes with a fizzing or hissing noise.
   • 2008, Salvatore Scibona, in The End, St. Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, ?ISBN; republished London: Vintage Books, 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.

Alternative forms

• fizzgig

Etymology 3

Possibly from Spanish fisga (“harpoon”).

Noun

fizgig (plural fizgigs)

1. (fishing) A spear with a barb on the end of it, used for catching fish; a type of harpoon.

Alternative forms

• fisgig
• fish gig
• fishgig
• fissgig (obsolete)

Etymology 4

Origin unknown.(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

fizgig (plural fizgigs)

1. (Australia, slang, dated) A police informer, a stool pigeon, someone employed by police to entrap someone else or provoke them to commit a crime.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:informant

Verb

fizgig (third-person singular simple present fizgigs, present participle fizgigging, simple past and past participle fizgigged)

1. (Australia, slang, dated) To act as a police informer or agent provocateur.

Alternative forms

• fizzgig

Synonyms

• inform, grass up, snitch; See also Thesaurus:rat out

Etymology 5

Origin unknown.(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

fizgig (plural fizgigs)

1. (Scotland, rare) The common ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris).

Alternative forms

• fizzgig