Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A light, giddy girl; a lascivious girl; a wanton.
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- noun Alternative form of
giglot .
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Examples
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Yesterday I took a break from the giglet and the ball-toting Gaul to snap a few more photos of our village.
French Word-A-Day: 2006
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Yesterday I took a break from the giglet and the ball-toting Gaul to snap a few more photos of our village.
French Word-A-Day: 2006
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Yesterday I took a break from the giglet and the ball-toting Gaul to snap a few more photos of our village.
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Yesterday I took a break from the giglet and the ball-toting Gaul to snap a few more photos of our village.
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Yesterday I took a break from the giglet and the ball-toting Gaul to snap a few more photos of our village.
French Word-A-Day: 2006
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She wept a bit, and then she began to laugh and, in fact, went on about it like a giglet wench of twenty-five.
The Torch and Other Tales Eden Phillpotts 1911
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In that crowd, as I am credibly informed, were gathered -- but none could distinguish them -- gentle and simple, maiden ladies with their servants or housekeepers, side by side with longshoremen, hovellers, giglet maids, and urchins; all alike magnetised and drawn thither by the Man and the Hour.
The Mayor of Troy Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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-- "Mort-Dieu! if, an hour before the battle of Towton, some wizard had shown me in his glass this glimpse of the gardens of the Tower, that giglet for a queen, and that squire of dames for a king, I had not slain my black destrier (poor Malech!), that I might conquer or die for Edward Earl of March."
The Last of the Barons — Volume 02 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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I tried by an innocent stratagem to frighten her from the castle, by introducing a figure through a trap-door, and warning her, as if by a voice from the dead, to retreat from thence; but the giglet is wilful, and is running upon her fate. '
Waverley — Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801
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I tried by an innocent stratagem to frighten her from the castle, by introducing a figure through a trap-door, and warning her, as if by a voice from the dead, to retreat from thence; but the giglet is wilful, and is running upon her fate. '
Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801
uselessness commented on the word giglet
Dictionary.com says: "A giddy, playful girl."
uselessness says: "The prettiest migraine ever to wear a cheerleader's uniform."
February 24, 2007
seanahan commented on the word giglet
I like yours better.
February 24, 2007