jigget

plural jiggets

1. archaicArchaic spelling of gigot.

   a jigget of beef  jiggets of mutton

   2 more examples

   You muſt have Hind-Quarters very large, and cut Jigget Faſhion, that is a Piece of Loin with it; […]

   1732, Charles Carter, “For Legs of Mutton Ham Fashion”, in The Compleat City and Country Cook: Or, Accomplish’d Housewife. […], London: Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch; and C. Davis […] T. Green […]; and S. Austen […], →OCLC, page 32

   On the table the only viands were barons of beef, jiggets of mutton, legs of pork, and such other ponderous masses of butcher's stuff, which no one can look at without discomfort, when the first edge has been taken off the appetite.

   1860, J[ohn] Cordy Jeaffreson, “The Doctor as a Bon-vivant”, in A Book about Doctors. … In Two Volumes, volume I, London: Hurst and Blackett, publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 187

present singular third person jiggets · participle present jiggeting · participle present jiggetting · participle past jiggeted · past jiggeted · participle past jiggetted · past jiggetted

1. datedTo gad; to move from one place to another in a (seemingly) flippant or idle manner.

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

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

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   "[…] 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."

   1814, Fanny Burney, The Wanderer, or, Female difficulties, page 290

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

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

   […] 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!

   1831, Walter Scott, “The Abbot”, in Waverley novels, volume 19, page 230

   Of all the boys hurrying back to St Xavier's, from Sukkur in the sands to Galle beneath the palms, none was so filled with virtue as Kimball O'Hara, jiggetting down to Umballa behind Hurree Chunder Mookerjee, […]

   1901, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 9, in Kim