fizgig
A police informer, a stool pigeon, someone employed by police to entrap someone else…A police informer, a stool pigeon, someone employed by police to entrap someone else or provoke them to commit a crime.
Meaning
5 senses(Australia, dated, slang)A police informer, a stool pigeon, someone employed by police to entrap someone else or provoke them to commit a crime.
(Scotland, rare)Common ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris, syn. Senecio jacobaea).
(archaic)A flirtatious, coquettish girl, inclined to gad or gallivant about; a gig, a giglot, a jillflirt.
(archaic)Something frivolous or trivial; a gewgaw, a trinket.
(archaic)A small squib-like firework that explodes with a fizzing or hissing noise.
- a firework that fizzes as it moves
- an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
Origin
From Middle English gig (“a frivolous woman”); the first element of the word may be from fFrom 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”).
From fizz + gig (“a whirling thing”).
Origin unknown.
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