gigot
nounUS, UK /ˈd͡ʒɪɡət/
Etymology Borrowed from French gigot (“leg (of lamb)”), from gigue (“(colloquial) a long leg; haunch of some animals, especially venison”) + -ot (diminutive suffix). Gigue is derived from giguer (“to dance; to jump”), further etymology unknown.
- Then is the hoſtie ſlaine and flayde, and part on gridorne put, / The liuer and lights they comely ſéeth and euery little gut. / The gigots and the other fleſh in péeces they did ſpit, / Which roſt, tipling the pleaſaunt wine they downe to table ſit.1581, Homer, “The Seconde Booke”, in A[rthur] H[all], transl., Ten Books of Homers Iliades, Translated out of French, London: Imprinted by [Henry Bynneman? for] Ralphe Nevvberie, →OCLC, page 31:
- Guard, Treaſon, treaſon, treaſon. / Boatſ[wain]. Cut the ſlaevs to giggets.c. 1619–1622, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Double Marriage. A Tragedy.”, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies. […], [part 2], London: […] J[ohn] Macock [and H. Hills], for John Martyn, Henry Herringman, and Richard Marriot, published 1679, →OCLC, Act III, scene i, page 104, column 2:
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- Next them all ſorts of Roſt-meates, of which the greateſt first, as Chine of Beeffe or Surloine, the Gigget or Legges of Mutton, Gooſſe, Swan, Veale, Pig, Capon, and ſuch like.1623, G[ervase] M[arkham], “Of the Outward and Actiue Knowledge of the Hous-wife; and of Her Skill in Cookerie; as Sallets of All Sorts, with Flesh, Fish, Sauces, Pastrie, Banqueting-stuffe, and Ordering of Great Feasts: Also Distillations, Perfumes, Conceited Secrets, and Preseruing Wine of All Sorts”, in Covntrey Contentments, or The English Husvvife. […], London: Printed by I. B. for R. Iackson, […], →OCLC, page 120:
- [A] Countryman came to intreat the Honour of him to go take a Repaſt at his House; Timur Sultan accepting of the Invitation, the Peaſant in order to treat him the better killed a fat Sheep, and at his Departure made him a Present of a good Gigot which was left.1730, Abu’l Ghâzi Bahâder [i.e., Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur], “Of Hadsim Chan, and the Other Descendants of Akattai Chan”, in A General History of the Turks, Moguls, and Tatars, Vulgarly Called Tartars. Together with a Description of the Countries They Inhabit. In Two Volumes. […], volume I, London: Printed for J. and J. Knapton [et al.], →OCLC, page 287:
- You muſt have Hind-Quarters very large, and cut Jigget Faſhion, that is a Piece of Loin with it; […]1732, Charles Carter, “For Legs of Mutton Ham Fashion”, in The Compleat City and Country Cook: Or, Accomplish’d Housewife. […], London: Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch; and C. Davis […] T. Green […]; and S. Austen […], →OCLC, page 32:
- A jiggot of mutton is the leg with part of the loin; provide ſuch a one as has been killed two or three days at leaſt, thump it well, and bind it with packthread; […]1759, William Verral, “Jigot de mouton aux onions Espaniols. Jiggot of Mutton with Spanish Onions.”, in A Complete System of Cookery. […], London: Printed for the author, and sold by him; as also by Edward Verral bookseller, […]; and by John Rivington […], page 47:
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Fashion, Lifestyle Abbreviation, Ellipsis Ellipsis of gigot sleeve (“a type of sleeve shaped like a leg of mutton”).
- Of these circumambulatory ells of crape, the young artificer contrived to fabricate a dress that was anything but unbecoming. The enormous crape gigots (for those were the days of gigots), which made part of her black treasure, hung from her delicate fair arms like transparent clouds upon the silvery brightness of the moon ....1839, Frances Trollope, “The Ball”, in The Widow Barnaby. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 29:
- A coat and trousers of light lilac cloth, the former with an immense black velvet collar and sleeves so full at the shoulder that they resembled gigots, the latter made tight, fearfully tight, to the knees, but bagging gradually to the insteps, where they fell over patent leather boots;[…][1873, Amelia Perrier, “Judas Iscariot, the Feast of Purim, and the Passover”, in A Winter in Morocco, London: Henry S. King & Co., […], →OCLC, page 317:
- Derived terms
- gigot sleeve