different between gigot vs jigget

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French gigot (“leg (of lamb)”), from gigue (“(colloquial) a long leg; haunch of some animals, especially venison”) + -ot (“diminutive suffix”). Gigue is derived from giguer (“to dance; to jump”), further etymology unknown.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?d????t/, /?i.?o?/
• Hyphenation: gi?got
• Rhymes: -???t

Noun

gigot (plural gigots)

1. (cooking) A leg of lamb or mutton.
2. (fashion) Short for gigot sleeve (“a type of sleeve shaped like a leg of mutton”).

   Synonym: leg-of-mutton sleeve

Alternative forms

• gigget, giggot (obsolete)
• jigget, jiggot, jigot (archaic)

Derived terms

• gigot sleeve

Translations

Notes

References

Further reading

• gigot (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• git-go

French

Etymology

From Old French gigue.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i.?o/

Noun

gigot m (plural gigots)

1. leg (of lamb)

Further reading

• “gigot” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?d????t/
• Homophone: gigot
• Hyphenation: jig?get

Etymology 1

See gigot.

Noun

jigget (plural jiggets)

1. Archaic spelling of gigot.

Related terms

• jiggot, jigot

Etymology 2

Possibly related to jiggle.

Verb

jigget (third-person singular simple present jiggets, present participle jiggetting or jiggeting, simple past and past participle jiggetted or jiggeted)

1. (dated) To gad; to move from one place to another in a (seemingly) flippant or idle manner.
   • 1814, Fanny Burney, The Wanderer, or, Female difficulties, page 290:

     " […] and jiggetting to outlandish countries, you'll do well to give her a hint to keep astern of me; for I shall never uphold a person who behaves o' that sort."

   • 1818, Mary Russel Mitford, in a letter to William Elford, The Life of Mary Russell Mitford, page 288:

     I don't believe he is ever two days in a place — always jiggeting about from one great house to another.

   • 1831, Walter Scott, The Abbot, in Waverley novels, volume 19, page 230:

     […] here you stand jiggetting, and sniggling, and looking cunning, as if there were some mighty matter of intrigue and common understanding betwixt you and me, whom you never set your eyes on before!

   • 1906, Richard Davey, The pageant of London, volume 2, page 365:

     […] but although he knew his Queen was dead, he went on jiggetting as if nothing had happened!