Gigmanity

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    Narrow concern about, and pride in, one's respectability; a petty sense of decorum. countable, dated, derogatory, uncountable

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gigmanism

Etymology

From gigman + -ity, coined by Thomas Carlyle, derived from a definition once given in a court of justice by a witness who, having described a person as respectable, was asked by the judge in the case what he meant by the word, and replied, "One that keeps a gig."

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