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| Domain | Definition |
Slang | Verb. Source: This word comes from the gig line of a military uniform, which is the line from the collar to the belt. Definition: A derogatory term for being corrected. Context: Used when a soldier is being corrected in any sort of way. Social Source: US National Guard. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "GIGGED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "GIGGED" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 50% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 50% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Misspellings | |
"GIGGED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: figged, gige, giget, Gigge, Guggum, zigged. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-g-g-i" | |
-2 letters: gied. | |
-3 letters: die, dig, egg, ged, gid, gie, gig. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, id. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-g-g-i" | |
+1 letter: giggled. | |
+3 letters: daggering, debugging, defogging, wigwagged, zigzagged. | |
+4 letters: bedrugging, begrudging, demagoging, doglegging, gudgeoning. | |
+5 letters: bedraggling, demagoguing, disengaging, ruggedizing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 49 47 47 45 44 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .. --. --. . -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01001001 01000111 01000111 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G I G G E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0049 0047 0047 0045 0044 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)414341413938 |
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