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Fizgig
"Fizgig" in a Sentence (22 examples)
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.
I don't see why Gertrude is not young enough and strong enough to take care of her child herself, without having a fine madman of a nurse to help her. If she cannot it is time she is learned;—anyway, I will keep no such fizgigs about here.
"[…] Lillie did the best she could, poor girl! but I could see all the time she was worrying about her new fizgigs and folderols in the house.[…]" / "[…] Young mistresses, you see, have nerves all over their house at first. They tremble at every dent in their furniture, and wink when you come near it, as if you were going to hit it a blow; but that wears off in time, and they learn to take it easy."
Mr. Leslie Stephen's style is exactly the opposite to Canon [Charles] Kingsley's. We have no fizgigs of fine writing for fine writing's sake, or for the sake of anything else. God is not adjured nor complimented in every other page. Christianity and muscles find their proper places. It is a perfect relief after the flabby, effeminate rhetoric with which we are now deluged, to read Mr. Leslie Stephen's terse and masculine style.
Tawdry has been applied to some of the pianoforte "fizgigs" that [Franz] Liszt attached to pieces he adapted from themes by others; that may or may not be a justifiable designation, but we look in vain for any such treatment in the Dead March.
Why should I go gadding and fizgigging after firking flantado amphibologies?
[…] 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: […]
The old man's backside fizgigged with laughter. "See ya, kid!" he called as Dave pedaled away.
What the Chevalier [Mortram] is about to do no one is supposed to know but himself. In the impenetrable breast of the artist lies the determination […] whether a Devil-among-the-Tailors shall end his freaks with a grand explosion of flower-pots and fizzgigs; […] or a fiery dragon to dart and wriggle and spit fire over the heads of the spectators.
Very different were our fizgigs at Brambles'. Neither powder nor pepper (you know) was adulterated in those days, and if you made a fizgig, why it blossomed and starred like a golden thistle, flashed into a myriad sparklets like a tiny fountain for Queen Mab and her troupe to dance around.
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And one day fortune played into his hand by sending a customer to the shop for two ounces of gunpowder, when Paul was standing by. / "Do you keep gunpowder, then?" said Paul, with kindling eyes, as the man left the shop. / "Yes," answered his brother innocently, "but we only sell it to grown-up people. Boys wouldn't know what to do with it." / "Wouldn't they, though? Why, you can make fizgigs of it that blaze like Vesuvius, the burning mountain."
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.
At day break we were cloſe by the Peninſule Mozambique (part of Quiloa) inhabited by Negroes; abundant in Gold, Silver, and Ambergreece; […] [A]n Armado of Dolphins aſſaulted us; and ſuch we ſaulted as we could intice to taſte our hooks or fiſſgiggs: […]
FIZGIG, ſ[ubſtantive] [a ſort of dart or harpoon with which ſeamen ſtrike fiſh.] Sorte de harpon.
[T]he inhabitants of this bay appeared to possess, in general, a very pointed difference from, if not a superiority over, those of New South Wales, particularly in their net-works. There was no doubt but they were provided with nets for catching very large fish, or animals; […] Mr. [Matthew] Flinders was of opinion, that this mode of procuring their food would cause a characteristic difference between the manners, and perhaps the dispositions of these people, and of those who mostly depend upon the spear or fizgig for a supply.
[T]wo of these red Indians in a boat, and they just paddle soft, paddle soft, as still as still, and they come up to the turtles as they lie asleep in the sea, and then. Whang. They dart their fizgigs. They never miss.
In order to make the clause perfect the Minister might add— / All "spotters," spies, fizgigs, and informers will be properly rewarded, and duly promoted, and guaranteed against publicity.
"Fizgigs?" Wood asks. / "Pimps. A fizgig is an agent provocateur – he gets you to do something you shouldn't do and that will hang you in court. A pimp gets you to do something innocuous that will still hang you.[…]"
A normal feller going about his business will give ya the once over without a squirm, but not this joker. Either he was a fizgig, or he was there to tip off someone about Jack's movements – Soupy, presumably.
The employment of "fiz-gigs" – men engaged by detectives to tempt discharged prisoners to commit specified […] The report of Mr. Francis Longmore and his colleagues may indeed have tended to diminish "fiz-gigging" […]
Easy, Frank. I don't want any terror. Just a line on Catchpole—who he's fizzgigging for at the moment. What might be going on.
S[enecio] jacobæa. Ragwort: Yellow-weed: Yellow elshinders, and in the Merse [Berwickshire], Fizz-gigs.—A common weed in old pastures and by road-sides.
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