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Gigged vs Figged - What's the difference?

gigged | figged |

As verbs the difference between gigged and figged

is that gigged is (gig) while figged is (fig).

gigged

English

Verb

(head)
  • (gig)

    • gig

    English

    Etymology 1

    Akin to Old Norse .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal, music) A performing engagement by a musical group; or, generally, any job or role for a musician or performer.
    • I caught one of the Rolling Stones' first gigs in Richmond .
    Hey, when are we gonna get that hotel gig again?
    Our guitar player had another gig so we had to get a sub.
  • (informal, by extension) Any job; especially one that is temporary; or alternately, one that is very desirable.
    • I had this gig as a file clerk but it wasn't my style so I left .
    Hey, that guy's got a great gig over at the bike shop. He hardly works all day!
  • A two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage.
  • * 1967 , William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner , Vintage 2004, p. 77:
    • the room grew stifling warm and vapor clung to the windowpanes, blurring the throng of people still milling outside the courthouse, a row of tethered gigs and buggies, distant pine trees in a scrawny, ragged grove.
  • (archaic) A forked spear for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals.
  • (South England) A six-oared sea rowing boat commonly found in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
  • (US, military) A demerit received for some infraction of military dress or deportment codes.
    • I received gigs for having buttons undone.

    Verb

  • To fish or catch with a gig, or fish spear.
  • To engage in musical performances.
    • The Stones were gigging around Richmond at the time
  • To make fun of; to make a joke at someone's expense, often condescending.
    • His older cousin was just gigging him about being in love with that girl from school.
  • (US, military) To impose a demerit for an infraction of a dress or deportment code.
    • His sergeant gigged him for an unmade bunk.

    Etymology 2

    A shortening of (gigabyte).

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (colloquial, computing) A gigabyte.
    • This picture is almost a gig ; don't you wanna resize it?
    How much music does it hold?'' ''A hundred and twenty gigs .

    Etymology 3

    (etyl) gigge.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A playful or wanton girl; a giglot.

    • Etymology 4

    Probably from (etyl) (lena) .

    Verb

  • To engender.
    • (Dryden)
    (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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    figged

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (fig)

    • fig

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) fige, fygge (also fyke, from (etyl) )Andreas Franz and Wilhelm Schimper, Plant Geography Upon a Physiological Basis , volume 2 (Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, 1902), page 100. Another (etyl) root (compare (etyl) ; whence (etyl) sycophant.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics.
  • The fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds.
  • A small piece of tobacco.
  • The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; a whit.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I'll pledge you all; and a fig for Peter!
    Derived terms
    * caprifig * fig leaf * figgy * figtree * not give a fig

    Verb

    (figg)
  • (obsolete) To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion.
  • * Shakespeare
    • When Pistol lies, do this, and fig me like / The bragging Spaniard.
  • (obsolete) To put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible.
    • (rfquotek, L'Estrange)

    External links

    * ("fig" on Wikipedia) * (pedia) * (Ficus)

    Etymology 2

    Variation of fike.

    Verb

    (figg)
  • To move suddenly or quickly; rove about.

    • Etymology 3

    Alternative forms

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    Noun

    (en noun)

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