;Posted on 09/21/2016 1:25:54 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell
;In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
FIZGIG [FIZ gig]
noun
This peculiar word is the name for an astonishing assortment of things: a gadabout, a giddy, flighty, frivolous, flirtatious,fretful, flustered female; a damp firewood that goes off with a loud hiss; a gimcrack or flimsy knickknack; a crotchet, whine, or quirk; a harpoon (in this meaning, usually spelt fish gig and comes from Spanish fiega, harpoon; a spinning or whirring toy that makes a loud, whizzing sound as it rotates.
a versatile word, with a versatile derivation: fizz (hissing or fluttering sound) or late Middle English fise (a term of abuse) or Icelandic fisa (to fart) plus Middle English gigge (girl), thus, giggling applies etymologically to the fairer sex.
A word expressive of childish delight. I am reminded of whirlygigs and dipdoodles.
See you in a few hours.
Word “experts” should probably proofread their thread titles... Just sayin’
When using the term fizgig, one must never use the latin spelling Faggiz.
You will be excommunicated from the democrat party and banned for life from San Francisco.
Had to get that dig in, didn’t ya :)
Besides, it’s all wrong.
FizGig is when your band has a gig at a club named Fiz :)
Awful, I know. :)
I’ll be as ecstatic as an absolute drunken fizgig election night when the Trumpeter brings it home. .....and I still think he’ll take NY.....
I’ll be dancing the fizgig when the Trumpster brings it home election night!
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I was out working in the yard yesterday and my fizgig neighbor berated my support of Donald Trump. After all she said, “there was a huge explosion at Chelsea’s in New York and when her mama went to her apartment to check on them she got all flustered and fell and now all you Trump people are makin’ fun of her when she just wanted to see about her little girl.” And then the fizgig whimpered.
Thank you so much for introducing this new word to me today! It is the perfect appelation of my next door neighbor.
Fizgig sounds like a champagne bash to me.
As opposed to, for example, the lack of childhood amusements caused by a whirling and spinning Giget movie on TV?
Precisely. Giget is the ultimate fizgig girl.
Except for maybe Goldie Hawn. RIP - later.
News of actress Goldie Hawn’s death spread quickly earlier this week causing concern among fans across the world. However the September 19, 2016 report has now been confirmed as a complete hoax and just the latest in a string of fake celebrity death reports. Thankfully, the actress best known for her role in Death Becomes Her is alive and well.
It's astonishing, only because it is a perfect fit: Hillary Fizgig Clinton. It's because she's "a gadabout, a giddy, flighty, frivolous, fretful, flustered female; a damp firewood that goes off with a loud hiss; a gimcrack or flimsy knickknack; a crotchet, whine, or quirk; harpoon; a spinning or whirring politician who makes a loud, whizzing sound as pivots from crisis to crisis.
There will be dancing in the streets when DT wins the election. Frizgigs will be out in force and the cow will leap over the moon for sheer joy.
But MaryAnn remains the ultimate practical, ideal girl in many a man’s heart.
Agent 99? Certainly!
Diana Rigg? Absolutely.
Mrs Howe? Meh.
Yep. They awalk among us.
I especially like Senator Fizgig.
Dumb as a box of Rocks
TRUE STORY:
A noted psychiatrist was a guest speaker at an academic function where Nancy Pelosi (Speaker of the United States House of Representatives)happened to appear. Ms. Pelosi took the opportunity to schmooze the good doctor a bit and asked him a question with which he was most at ease.
‘Would you mind telling me, Doctor,’ she asked, ‘how you detect a mental deficiency in somebody who appears completely normal?’
‘Nothing is easier,’ he replied. ‘You ask a simple question which anyone should answer with no trouble.. If the person hesitates, that puts you on the track.’
‘What sort of question?’ asked Pelosi.
Well, you might ask, ‘Captain Cook made three trips around the world and died during one of them. Which one?’’
Pelosi thought a moment, and then said with a nervous laugh, ‘You wouldn’t happen to have another example would you? I must confess I don’t know much about history.’
Sadly, they walk among us! And, MORE sadly, hold high offices!!!
The Fizgig girls are legion and legendary.
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