gyger
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
gyger (plural gygers)
- Alternative spelling of jigger (“door”)
- 1566, Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursetors:
- Towre ye, yander is the ken, dup the gyger and maunde that is beneship.
See you, yonder is the house, open the doore, and aske for the best.
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
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Noun[edit]
gyger f (definite singular gygra, indefinite plural gygrar or gygrer, definite plural gygrane or gygrene)
Derived terms[edit]
- gardgyger
- gygrande
- gygrar-
- gygrebeist
- gygreberg
- gygrebrekk
- gygrebrisk
- gygredotter
- gygrefele
- gygrefis
- gygregand
- gygregap
- gygregard
- gygregras
- gygregryte
- gygreheim
- gygrehest, gygretråvar (“wolf”)
- gygrehole
- gygrehovud
- gygrehår
- gygrekjerring
- gygrekling
- gygrekost
- gygremann
- gygremjøl (“Byssus pulverulenta flava”)
- gygremor
- gygrenamn
- gygreris
- gygrerop
- gygrerygg
- gygreråd
- gygresal
- gygresegn
- gygreskjesse
- gygreskodde
- gygreslag
- gygresleg
- gygreslott
- gygresol
- gygresop, gygresopl, gygresovl
- gygresopp
- gygresote
- gygrestein
- gygrestig
- gygrestove
- gygresyster
- gygreså
- gygretev
- gygretrapp
- gygretull
- gygrgrep
- gygrkvern
- havgyger
- margyger (“female sea monster”)
- ovgyger
- pestgyger
- risgygre
- skrevegyger
- skumegyger
- ugyger
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Swedish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse gýgr. Possibly related to Sanskrit गुहति (gúhati, “he hides”).[1]
Noun[edit]
gyger
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