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gig:
1. Short for gigolo .

2. Or: gigg , an obsolete term for a house woman or the mistress of a household. It was used by Geoffrey Chaucer in The House of Fame (1373) to mean a wanton or promiscuous woman , but it was obsolete by the 17 th century.

3. From the 17 th to the 19 th century, the female genitals . Captain Francis Grose, in his Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1811) defines gigg as ' a nose ' or ' a woman's privaties' . See vagina for synonyms.

4. Or: giggy , the anus . See anus for synonyms.

5. A musical booking or job .
Etymology: From Middle French giguer, a lively dance of that period . From this root also derives the French word gigolette , a prostitute , and the Italian gigolo , a male prostitute or kept man .




See Also: hand jive, hand jig, Sheila-na-gig, giggy, hand job,

Quotes Containing gig:
Dick Pepper (Gig Young) explaining to his Augie Pool (Richard Widmark) the the guilt of the philandering husband in The Tunnel of Love (1958): - Dick: ''Every time it''s over I have a terrific sense of guilt.'' - Augie: ''Oh, but you wait until it''s over, hum?'' - Dick: ''Sure. I feel I deserve this guilt. When I don''t have it I''m uncomfortable so I try to recapture the guilt by chasing around.'' - Augia: ''So why do you keep chasing around then if it''s that much trouble?'' - Dick: ''I''ve got to get back to that feeling of guilt. (...) I have to suffer for chasing around.''
Dick Pepper (Gig Young) explaining to his friend Augie Pool (Richard Widmark) the vicious-circle of guilt of the philandering husband in The Tunnel of Love (1958): - Dick: ''Every time it''s over I have a terrific sense of guilt.'' - Augie: ''Oh, but you wait until it''s over, hum?'' - Dick: ''Sure. I feel I deserve this guilt. When I don''t have it I''m uncomfortable so I try to recapture the guilt by chasing around.'' - Augie: ''So why do you keep chasing around then if it''s that much trouble?'' - Dick: ''I''ve got to get back to that feeling of guilt. (...) I have to suffer for chasing around.''


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