Yesterday I took a break from the giglet and the ball-toting Gaul to snap a few more photos of our village. ❋ Unknown (2006)
She wept a bit, and then she began to laugh and, in fact, went on about it like a giglet wench of twenty-five. ❋ Eden Phillpotts (1911)
In that crowd, as I am credibly informed, were gathered -- but none could distinguish them -- gentle and simple, maiden ladies with their servants or housekeepers, side by side with longshoremen, hovellers, giglet maids, and urchins; all alike magnetised and drawn thither by the Man and the Hour. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
-- "Mort-Dieu! if, an hour before the battle of Towton, some wizard had shown me in his glass this glimpse of the gardens of the Tower, that giglet for a queen, and that squire of dames for a king, I had not slain my black destrier (poor Malech!), that I might conquer or die for Edward Earl of March." ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
I tried by an innocent stratagem to frighten her from the castle, by introducing a figure through a trap-door, and warning her, as if by a voice from the dead, to retreat from thence; but the giglet is wilful, and is running upon her fate. ' ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
The Norsemen were apparently as sexist as we are: all of the following, flag, giglet, gimmer, skit, and slattern generally mean ` low, contemptible woman '; only may ` maiden' has survived with specific reference to women without pejoration. ❋ Unknown (1984)
That self-wlird, head-strong giglet, sM Does ought ava she likes for me, ❋ Hugh Porter (1813)
I tried, by an innocent stratagem, to frighten her from the castle by introducing a figure through a trap-door and warning her, as if by a voice from the dead, to retreat from thence; but the giglet is wilful, and is running upon her fate.” ❋ Unknown (2004)
a figure through a trap-door, and warning her, as if by a voice from the dead, to retreat from thence; but the giglet is wilful, and is running upon her fate. '' ❋ Unknown (1877)
1410: (Oh giglet Fortune) to master Caesars Sword, ❋ Unknown (1623)
"The inconceivable idiots!" said Thurston, as he strode on through the park of Luckenough, "to fancy that any one with eyes, heart and brain, could possibly fall in love with the 'Will-o'-the-wisp' Jacquelina, or worse, that giglet, Angelica; when he sees Marian! ❋ Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (1859)
Tower, that giglet for a queen, and that squire of dames for a king, I had not slain my black destrier (poor Malech!), that I might conquer or die for Edward Earl of March. " ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
I tried, by an innocent stratagem, to frighten her from the castle by introducing a figure through a trap-door and warning her, as if by a voice from the dead, to retreat from thence; but the giglet is wilful, and is running upon her fate. " ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
"Hey did you see that guy in the Mr. [Know-it-all] shirt?"
"No, where is he?"
"He is right there."
"Oh my gosh! He is such a nerd!"
"Yeah, what a giglet! [Hah] [hah] hah!" ❋ Mia Lance McCruster (2008)
A [giglet] of [stuff] ❋ 04step (2011)
