1848. Jones, Sketches of Travel, p. 9. Byin’ fineries and northern gigamarees of one kind or another.
Ibid. I ax’d the captain what sort of a gigamaree he had got up there for a flag.
Gigantomachize, verb. (old).—To rise in revolt against one’s betters. Gr., Gigantomachia = the War of the Giants against the Gods. [Probably a coinage of Ben Jonson’s.]
1599. Jonson, Every Man Out, Act v., 4. Slight, fed with it the whoreson, strummel-patched, goggle-eyed grumble-dores would have gigantomachized their Maker.
Gigger, subs. (tailors’).—1. A sewing machine. (In allusion to noise and movement).
2. See Jigger.
Giggles-nest. Have you found a giggles-nest? phr. (old).—Asked of a person tittering, or one who laughs immoderately and senselessly. [[142]]
Gig-lamps, subs. (common).—1. Spectacles. For synonyms, see Barnacles.
1848. Bradley, in Letter to J. C. H. Gig-lamps (certainly a university term. I first heard it in 1848 or 1849, long before Mr. Verdant Green was born or thought of).
1877. Five Years’ Penal Servitude, ch. ii., p. 140. You with the gig-lamps, throw us your cigar.