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Updated: May 21, 2025
Soon came the news that the folk of Vienna, who had been cutting up Europe as if it had been a jigget of mutton, had flown back, each to his own country, and that every man and horse in their armies had their faces towards France. We heard of great reviews and musterings in Paris too, and then that Wellington was in the Low Countries, and that on us and on the Prussians would fall the first blow.
Miss Diggity-Dalgety's forebears must have been exposed to foreign influences, for she interlards her culinary conversation with French terms, and we have discovered that this is quite common. A 'jigget' of mutton is of course a gigot, and we have identified an 'ashet' as an assiette.
The N.E.D. quotes this passage, cf. Jonson's Volpone, Act v, sc. II: 'I must ha' my crotchets! And my conundrums! Dic. Cant. Crew has: 'Conundrums. Whimms, Maggots and such like. p. 222 jiggiting. To jigget = to jig, hop or skip; to jump about, and to fidget, cf.
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