ət, ʒiˈgoʊ noun
1.
a leg-of-mutton sleeve.
2.
a leg of lamb or mutton.
Origin:
1520–30; < Middle French, apparently diminutive of gigue fiddle (< Germanic; compare Old High German gîga kind of fiddle (German Geige), gig1), so called in allusion to its shape
1520–30; < Middle French, apparently diminutive of gigue fiddle (< Germanic; compare Old High German gîga kind of fiddle (German Geige), gig1), so called in allusion to its shape
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| —n | |
| 1. | a leg of lamb or mutton |
| 2. | a leg-of-mutton sleeve |
| [C16: from Old French: leg, a small fiddle, from gigue a fiddle, of Germanic origin] | |
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Gigot
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