giggot

English

Etymology

From Brythonic numerals, from an assummed *gwigent, from Proto-Brythonic *ʉgėnt, from Proto-Celtic *wikantī.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɪɡət/
• Homophone: gigot
• Hyphenation: gig‧got

Numeral

giggot

1. (Cumbria) twenty in Cumbrian sheep counting

See also

• (Borrowdale sheep counting) yan, tyan, tethera, methera, pimp, sethera, lethera, hovera, dovera, dick, yan-a-dick, tyan-a-dick, tethera-a-dick, methera-a-dick, bumfit, yan-a-bumfit, tyan-a-bumfit, tethera-a-bumfit, methera-bumfit, giggot

References

• Wright, Peter (1995) Cumbrian Chat, Dalesman Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 7
• Deakin, Michael A.B. (2007) Leigh-Lancaster, David, editor, The Name of the Number‎^[1], Australian Council for Educational Research, →ISBN, retrieved 2008-05-17, page 75
• Varvogli, Aliki (2002) Annie Proulx's The Shipping News: A Reader's Guide‎^[2], Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, retrieved 2008-05-17, pages 24-25

Noun

giggot (plural giggots)

1. Obsolete spelling of gigot.
   • 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:

     Among the dainties which he [Henry VIII of England] relished, were giggots of mutton or venison, stopped with cloves; […]