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gighe (?) - n., plural of giga.
Not in the sense of a billion of something, even though that's the only entry for giga that some dictionaries have (even ones that list gighe as its plural), but an alternate spelling of gigue, a lively baroque dance whose name is a Frenchified form of jig, a lively Irish dance (which in turn came from French again, in the Old French form gige meaning both fiddle and dance, from Frankish, from a Proto-Germanic root meaning to move and to wish/desire, from PIE *gheiǵh-).
Which quite possibly makes this the most ridiculous obscure word yet in the Words With Friends dictionary. Sheesh.
---L.
Not in the sense of a billion of something, even though that's the only entry for giga that some dictionaries have (even ones that list gighe as its plural), but an alternate spelling of gigue, a lively baroque dance whose name is a Frenchified form of jig, a lively Irish dance (which in turn came from French again, in the Old French form gige meaning both fiddle and dance, from Frankish, from a Proto-Germanic root meaning to move and to wish/desire, from PIE *gheiǵh-).
Which quite possibly makes this the most ridiculous obscure word yet in the Words With Friends dictionary. Sheesh.
---L.
