"gigot" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɪɡət/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation], /ʒi.ɡoʊ/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-gigot.wav [Southern-England] Forms: gigots [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪɡət 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. Etymology templates: {{refn|From the collection of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York City, New York, USA.|group=n|name=n1}}, {{bor|en|fr|gigot||leg (of lamb)}} French gigot (“leg (of lamb)”), {{m|fr|gigue||(colloquial) a long leg; haunch of some animals, especially venison}} gigue (“(colloquial) a long leg; haunch of some animals, especially venison”), {{glossary|diminutive}} diminutive, {{m|fr|-ot||diminutive suffix}} -ot (“diminutive suffix”), {{m|fr|giguer||to dance; to jump}} giguer (“to dance; to jump”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} gigot (plural gigots)
  1. (cooking) A leg of lamb or mutton. Categories (topical): Cooking Translations (leg of lamb or mutton): gigot [masculine] (French), bárányláb (Hungarian), báránycomb (Hungarian), ürücomb (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-gigot-en-noun-zlSWZiUZ Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle Disambiguation of 'leg of lamb or mutton': 90 10
  2. (fashion) Short for gigot sleeve (“a type of sleeve shaped like a leg of mutton”). Tags: abbreviation, alt-of Alternative form of: gigot sleeve (extra: a type of sleeve shaped like a leg of mutton) Categories (topical): Fashion Synonyms: leg-of-mutton sleeve
    Sense id: en-gigot-en-noun-dtbMTDfj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 95 Topics: fashion, lifestyle
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: gigget, giggot [obsolete], jigget, jiggot, jigot [archaic] Derived forms: gigot sleeve

Noun [French]

IPA: /ʒi.ɡo/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Benoît Prieur-gigot.wav Forms: gigots [plural]
Etymology: From Old French gigue. Etymology templates: {{der|fr|fro|gigue}} Old French gigue Head templates: {{fr-noun|m}} gigot m (plural gigots)
  1. leg (of some animals kept or hunted for their meat) Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-gigot-fr-noun-lEDMEqty Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header

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          "text": "[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.",
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          "text": "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; […]",
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          "ref": "1821, [Elizabeth] Benger, Memoirs of the Life of Anne Boleyn, Queen of Henry VIII. [...] In Two Volumes, 2nd edition, volume I, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], →OCLC, footnote, page 220",
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          "ref": "1844, Henry Stephens, “Of Driving and Slaughtering Sheep”, in The Book of the Farm, […], volume II, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, paragraph 1396, page 98",
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          "text": "On the table the only viands were barons of beef, jiggets of mutton, legs of pork, and such other ponderous masses of butcher's stuff, which no one can look at without discomfort, when the first edge has been taken off the appetite.",
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        {
          "ref": "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",
          "text": "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; […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1821, [Elizabeth] Benger, Memoirs of the Life of Anne Boleyn, Queen of Henry VIII. [...] In Two Volumes, 2nd edition, volume I, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], →OCLC, footnote, page 220",
          "text": "Among the dainties which he [Henry VIII of England] relished, were giggots of mutton or venison, stopped with cloves; […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1844, Henry Stephens, “Of Driving and Slaughtering Sheep”, in The Book of the Farm, […], volume II, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, paragraph 1396, page 98",
          "text": "The jigot […] is the handsomest and most valuable part of the carcass, and on that account fetches the highest price. It is either a roasting or a boiling piece. Of Black-faced mutton it makes a fine roast, and the piece of fat in it called the Pope's eye, is considered a delicate morceau by epicures. A jigot of Leicester, Cheviot, or Southdown mutton makes a beautiful \"boiled leg of mutton,\" which is prized the more the fatter it is, as this part of the carcass is never overloaded with fat.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1860, J[ohn] Cordy Jeaffreson, “The Doctor as a Bon-vivant”, in A Book about Doctors. … In Two Volumes, volume I, London: Hurst and Blackett, publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 187",
          "text": "On the table the only viands were barons of beef, jiggets of mutton, legs of pork, and such other ponderous masses of butcher's stuff, which no one can look at without discomfort, when the first edge has been taken off the appetite.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1944 August, D. E. Walker, C. P. McMeekan, “Canterbury Lamb”, in D. Cairns, editor, The New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology, volume 26, section A (Agricultural Section), number 2, Wellington: [Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.] E. V. Paul, government printer, →ISSN, →OCLC, part II (Comparative Measurements of Canterbury Lamb), page 62",
          "text": "Wide gigots [of lambs] are desirable from the point of view of conformation so that this measurement has both a qualitative and quantitative significance. The heavy-weight lambs are wider in the gigots than the light-weights of the same breed group.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1965 February, Ray Stevens George, Effects of Varying Percentages of Fat in Lamb Carcasses on Slaughter, Storage, Cutting, and Cooking Losses (unpublished M.S. dissertation), Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University, →OCLC, page 13",
          "text": "In search of a single measurement to predict the loin eye area, the width of the gigots and the circumference of the thigh were used along with the circumference of the forearms, the carcass length, the depth at heart, the width at the shoulder, the width at the hips, and the width of the pin bones.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A leg of lamb or mutton."
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        ],
        [
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        [
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        "(cooking) A leg of lamb or mutton."
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      ]
    },
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      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "a type of sleeve shaped like a leg of mutton",
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        }
      ],
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        "en:Fashion"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "[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",
          "text": "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;[…]]",
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        }
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        "Short for gigot sleeve (“a type of sleeve shaped like a leg of mutton”)."
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        ]
      ],
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        "(fashion) Short for gigot sleeve (“a type of sleeve shaped like a leg of mutton”)."
      ],
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        {
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        }
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        "Received-Pronunciation"
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʒi.ɡoʊ/",
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        "General-American",
        "Received-Pronunciation"
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      ],
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    {
      "word": "gigget"
    },
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      ],
      "word": "giggot"
    },
    {
      "word": "jigget"
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    {
      "word": "jiggot"
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      "word": "jigot"
    }
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "leg of lamb or mutton",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gigot"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "leg of lamb or mutton",
      "word": "bárányláb"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "leg of lamb or mutton",
      "word": "báránycomb"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "leg of lamb or mutton",
      "word": "ürücomb"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum"
  ],
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}

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        "3": "gigue"
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      "expansion": "Old French gigue",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old French gigue.",
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    }
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  "lang_code": "fr",
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        "French entries with incorrect language header",
        "French lemmas",
        "French masculine nouns",
        "French nouns",
        "French terms derived from Old French",
        "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "French terms with audio links",
        "French terms with usage examples"
      ],
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          "text": "gigot d’agneau",
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ʒi.ɡo/"
    },
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      "text": "Audio"
    }
  ],
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}

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