fizgigging

Verb (1)

fizgig (third-person singular simple present fizgigs, present participle fizgigging, simple past and past participle fizgigged)

1. (archaic, intransitive) To roam around in a frivolous manner; to gad about, to gallivant.
   • Why should I go gadding and fizgigging after firking flantado amphibologies?1594, Tho[mas] Nashe, The Vnfortunate Traueller. Or, The Life of Iacke Wilton, London: Printed by T[homas] Scarlet for C[uthbert] Burby, & are to be sold at his shop adioyning to the Exchange, →OCLC...

Verb (2)

fizgig (third-person singular simple present fizgigs, present participle fizgigging, simple past and past participle fizgigged)

1. (Australia, dated, slang) To act as a police informer or agent provocateur.
   • The employment of "fiz-gigs" – men engaged by detectives to tempt discharged prisoners to commit specified […] The report of Mr. Francis Longmore and his colleagues may indeed have tended to diminish "fiz-gigging" […]1907, “Crime and the Criminal. The Defective Detective Forces of Australia.”, in The Lone Hand, volume I, Sydney, N.S.W.: William McLeod, →OCLC, page 523

   Synonyms:

   inform, grass up, snitch

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