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Definition of Fizgigs
1. fizgig [n] - See also: fizgig
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fizgigs
Literary usage of Fizgigs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1892)
"They lived on sharks, caught with fizgigs made out of their own spurs, and
Rivadeneira and his followers arrived at San José de ..."
2. An Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and by William Fordyce Mavor (1802)
"... they went frequently in the boats to fish at sea, and, as our traveller had
brought with him three fizgigs of different sizes, with the proper lines, ..."
3. Travels to discover the source of the Nile by James Bruce (1804)
"... but upon the small fizgigs for dolphins, I could not refrain from attempting
one of the largest; for they were so bold, that some of them, we thought, ..."
4. Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770 by James Bruce (1804)
"... and, as I had brought with me three fizgigs of different sizes, with the proper
lines, I seldom returned without killing four or five dolphins. ..."
5. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1836)
"Cook peppered the bone when it was on the gridiron, and frightened at fizgigs,
dropped castor into fire. Both went off together — castor into atoms, ..."
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