Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—G

Gig

(g hard). A whipping top, made like a Ñ.

“Thou disputest like an infant. Go, whip thy gig.” —Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost, v. 1.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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