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† giggs, gigs, n. pl. Obs.
Also 6 gigges, 7 jigs.
[Of obscure origin; cf. the various words spelt jig.]
A mouth-disease in horses (see quots.).
1580Blundevil Curing Horses Dis. xl. 18 b, Of the bladders in a horses mouth, which our old Ferrers were woont to call the Gigges. The Italians call them Froncelle. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 362 The Gigs..be litle soft swellings or rather pustuls with blacke heads, growing in the inside of his lips, next vnto the great iaw-teeth. 1623Markham Cheap Husbandry (ed. 3) 75 The Iigs. 1639T. de Grey Compl. Horsem. 211 Having the lampes, barbs, giggs, blisters, bloudy rifts. 1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v., These Giggs proceed from foul Feeding, either of Grass or Provender. 1753J. Bartlet Gentleman's Farriery xliv. 320 There are frequently observed on the inside the lips and palate, little swellings or bladders, called Giggs. |
