† gegge Obs.
Also gigge.
[Of obscure origin: app. not identical with gig.]
A term, apparently contemptuous, applied both to man and woman.
| a 1300 Floris & Bl. (Hausknecht) 853 Twei gegges þe cupe bere. 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 403 Thus arraied gooþ þe geggis [v.r. gigges, Caxton segges], And alle wiþ bare legges. |