- a leg of mutton, lamb, veal, etc.
- a leg-of-mutton sleeve
Origin of gigot
French from OFr, leg of mutton, diminutive of gigue, a fiddle from Middle High German giga, a fiddle: for Indo-European base see jiggigot
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gigot
noun
- A leg of mutton, lamb, or veal for cooking.
- A leg-of-mutton sleeve.
Origin of gigot
French from Old French diminutive of gigue fiddle from Middle High German gīge from Old High German gīgaTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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