Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - gig
Gig
gig
1. n. 1 a light two-wheeled one-horse carriage. 2 a light ship's boat for rowing or sailing. 3 a rowing-boat esp. for racing. Etymology: ME in var. senses: prob. imit. 2. n. & v. colloq. --n. an engagement of an entertainer, esp. of musicians to play jazz or dance music, usu. for a single appearance. --v.intr. (gigged, gigging) perform a gig. Etymology: 20th c.: orig. unkn. 3. n. a kind of fishing-spear. Etymology: short for fizgig, fishgig: cf. Sp. fisga harpoon
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English -gyge (in whyrlegyge whirli~), of unknown origin Date: 1570 something that whirls or is whirled: as, top, whirli~, a 3-digit selection in a numbers game, a person of odd or grotesque appearance, 3. a long light ship's boat, a rowboat designed for speed rather than for work, a light 2-wheeled one-horse carriage, II. intransitive verb (~ged; ~ging) Date: 1807 to travel in a ~, III. noun Etymology: short for earlier fiz~, fish~, of unknown origin Date: 1722 a pronged spear for catching fish, an arrangement of hooks to be drawn through a school of fish in order to hook their bodies, IV. verb (~ged; ~ging) Date: 1803 transitive verb to spear with a ~, 2. spur, jab, goad, provoke, intransitive verb to fish with a ~, V. noun Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1926 a job usually for a specified time, VI. intransitive verb (~ged; ~ging) Date: 1939 to work as a musician , VII. noun Etymology: origin unknown Date: circa 1941 a military demerit, VIII. transitive verb (~ged; ~ging) Date: circa 1941 to give a military ~ to, IX. noun Date: 1987 ~abyte ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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