Gigget vs Jigget - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between gigget and jigget

is that gigget is alternative form of lang=en while jigget is a leg (of meat, regarded as food); a gigot of beef or lamb or other meat.

As a verb jigget is

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

gigget

English

Noun

(en noun)

Cut the slaves to giggets . — Beaumont and Fletcher.

(Webster 1913)

jigget

English

Etymology 1

Variant of gigot .

Noun

(en noun)

A leg (of meat, regarded as food); a gigot of beef or lamb or other meat.

a jigget of beef

jiggets of mutton

Etymology 2

Possibly related to jiggle .

Verb

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

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

" 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."

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

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

* 1831 , Walter Scott, The Abbot'', in ''Waverley novels , volume 19, page 230:

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!

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

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

* (rfdate), Rudyard Kipling, Kim :

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,