Jigget vs Null - What's the difference?
jigget | null |
A leg (of meat, regarded as food); a gigot of beef or lamb or other meat.
(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:
* 1818 , Mary Russel Mitford, in a letter to William Elford, The Life of Mary Russell Mitford , page 288:
* 1831 , Walter Scott, The Abbot'', in ''Waverley novels , volume 19, page 230:
* 1906 , Richard Davey, The pageant of London , volume 2, page 365:
* (rfdate), Rudyard Kipling, Kim :
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between jigget and null
is that jigget is a leg (of meat, regarded as food); a gigot of beef or lamb or other meat while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb jigget
is (dated) to gad; to move from one place to another in a (seemingly) flippant or idle manner.jigget
English
Etymology 1
Variant of gigot .Noun
(en noun)- a jigget of beef
- jiggets of mutton
Etymology 2
Possibly related to jiggle .Verb
- " 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."
- I don't believe he is ever two days in a place — always jiggeting about from one great house to another.
- 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!
- but although he knew his Queen was dead, he went on jiggetting as if nothing had happened!
- 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,
null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.