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jocon | 20:34 Wed 12th Jun 2013 | Crosswords
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14ac - "A bit of mutton and trifle no longer popular in the East End?" (5) - is it GIGot or JIGot? I prefer jigot, but they both mean the same thing and I can't get the trifle reference. Help needed.
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Gig is an obsolete word for a whipping top (whipped top); a trifle has a whipped top of cream! After much confusion such as you felt, jocon, that's the conclusion I came to, but it's a very obscure bit of reasoning!
09:08 Thu 13th Jun 2013
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A bit of mutton and (a bit of trifle) no longer = whipped top? Does Manley mean that " a bit of trifle" is the whipped top?
09:10 Thu 13th Jun 2013
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Thanks for your thoughts - I have entered as "jig" on the basis of Chambers' definition: "jingle or piece of doggerel", construed by me as a trifle. I'm not really happy, though - gigot seems to be the main entry for the mutton reference. We have to wait and see.
10:30 Thu 13th Jun 2013

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