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gad | jigget |

As nouns the difference between gad and jigget

is that gad is iron bar while jigget is a leg (of meat, regarded as food); a gigot of beef or lamb or other meat.

As a verb jigget is

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

gad

English

Etymology 1

Taboo deformation of (God).

Interjection

(en interjection)
  • An exclamatory interjection roughly equivalent to 'by God', 'goodness gracious', 'for goodness' sake'.
    • 1905' '' That's the trouble -- it was too easy for you -- you got reckless -- thought you could turn me inside out, and chuck me in the gutter like an empty purse. But, by '''gad , that ain't playing fair: that's dodging the rules of the game.'' — Edith Wharton, '' House of Mirth.
    Derived terms
    * egads * egad

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) .

    Verb

    (gadd)
  • To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner.
  • * 1852 , Alice Cary, Clovernook ....
    • This, I suppose, is the virgin who abideth still in the house with you. She is not given, I hope, to gadding overmuch, nor to vain and foolish decorations of her person with ear-rings and finger-rings, and crisping-pins: for such are unprofitable, yea, abominable.
  • *
    • Synonyms
    * gallivant
    Derived terms
    * gadabout * gaddish, gaddishness

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sharp-pointed object; a goad.
  • * 1885 , Detroit Free Press. , December 17
    • Twain finds his voice after a short search for it and when he impels it forward it is a good, strong, steady voice in harness until the driver becomes absent-minded, when it stops to rest, and then the gad must be used to drive it on again.
  • (obsolete) A metal bar.
  • * 1485 , Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book XV:
    • they sette uppon hym and drew oute their swerdys to have slayne hym – but there wolde no swerde byghte on hym more than uppon a gadde of steele, for the Hyghe Lorde which he served, He hym preserved.
  • * Moxon
    • Flemish steel some in bars and some in gads .
  • A pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock, especially in mining.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I will go get a leaf of brass, / And with a gad of steel will write these words.
  • * 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 327:
    • Frank was able to keep his eyes open long enough to check his bed with a miner's gad and douse the electric lamp
  • (dated, metallurgy) An indeterminate measure of metal produced by a furnace, perhaps equivalent to the bloom, perhaps weighing around 100 pounds.
  • * 1957 , H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry , p. 146.
    • ''Twice a day a 'gad' of iron, i.e., a bloom weighing 1 cwt. was produced, which took from six to seven hours.
  • A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling.
    • (Fairholt)
  • (UK, US, dialect) A rod or stick, such as a fishing rod, a measuring rod, or a rod used to drive cattle with.
    • (Halliwell)
    (Bartlett)

    Anagrams

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    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,