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_ And what new minuets have you brought over with you? their minuets are to a miracle! and our Sicilian jiggs are so dull and sad to them!
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 04 John Dryden 1665
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♫ Ex-bouncer Man ♫ fighter of the Drunkman ♫ master of karate and friendship ♫ for everyone ♫ jiggs: In my head, the bouncer sounds like Carl from ATHF.
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Society's _Collections_, I, 268.] [Footnote 453: Greg, _Henslowe Papers_, p. 13.] [Footnote 454: For an ordinance concerning "lewd jiggs" at the Fortune in 1612, see _Middlesex County Records_, II, 83.]
Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration Joseph Quincy Adams 1913
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(pl. noun) - Small dregs or sediment, as of a pot of coffee or a bottle of physic. --Rev. Robert Forby's Vocabulary of East Anglia, 1830
January 27, 2018