fizgig
words with many unrelated meanings
Word of the Day:
fizgig (FIZ-gig) noun
1. A squib: a type of firework made with damp powder that makes a
hissing sound when exploding.
[From fizz, a clipping of fizzle, from fysel (to break wind).]
2. A kind of top spun by pulling a string wound around it.
3. A flirty, frivolous girl.
[Both from Middle English gig (a flighty girl, a whipping-top).]
4. A kind of harpoon with barbs for spearing fish.
[From Spanish fisga (fish spear).]
5. A police informer.
[Australian slang.]
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American Literature:
1. Read Chapter 9 in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. No homework night! Find your own green light and figure out how not to be destroyed by it!
3./4. Post Livejournal #6
5. Read xeroxed handouts of Gatsby essays, selection from Aznar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran, and excerpt from Scott Russell Sanders
Southern Literature and Culture:
1. Skim through Neon Vernacular by Yusef Koumunyakaa; bring to class three poems of his you would like to consider
2. No homework night! Do something Southern!
3./4. Read Acts 1-2 of Hamlet by William Shakespeare
5. Read Act 3 of Hamlet by William Shakespeare
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