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Giglet (etymological musings)

By Johnny Fuery ⋅ November 17, 2004 ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

Ran across this word in my word-a-day email list today.

I’d have guessed that it had something to do with the “giga-” root — as in gigabyte or gigawatt, meaning a billion.

Of course, there’s “gig”, meaning a short term contract. Maybe a micro-contract?

Then there’s the usage in giggle — is a giglet a little joke?

But, alas, it’s meaning is un-guessable: http://wordsmith.org/words/giglet.html

I wonder if there’s a word “googlet”… nope. Google tells me it’s a Mac OS search tool and that’s it. Now there’s some new jargon waiting to be coined. How about little google wannabe companies? Or the search results on a small footprint device like a phone?

Heh. Enough uber-geeking. Gotta do some work.