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gy Idiom

edgy

nervous, cranky, touchy You're kind of edgy today. Did you sleep well last night?

piggy bank

glass or porcelain pig used for saving coins The little girl was counting the money in her piggy bank.

piggyback

carried on someone's back, riding on someone's back Jurgen loved to ride piggyback when his dad walked in the park.

twiggy

slim person, as slim as a twig on a branch Kim is a gymnast. She's slim and agile - a real twiggy.

wingy

wild, crazy, wacko Leon drove his car into the lake again. That guy is really wingy!

argy-bargy

trouble, noisy quarrelling, arguing

chuggy

chewing gum [Scottish use]

ciggy

a cigarette; also shortened to cig

daggy

gross; beaten up; in a poor state of repair. This is often used to refer to a trampy, greasy-looking person:"What a dog! Ewwww, he's soooo daggy!"

dingy

dirty:"Who is dat dingy dude that keep walking up and down our block?!"

gettin' jiggy wit it

dancing, gettin yo groove, getting clean

jiggy

to have a lot of money or riches;"DKNY, oh my I'm jiggy" -- Junior M.A.F.I.A. (Player's Anthem [1995])

soggy indo

a joint (see marijuana) that has been dipped in PCP or something

hang sb in effigy

Idiom(s): hang sb in effigy

Theme: RIDICULE

to hang a dummy or some other figure of a hated person.
• They hanged the dictator in effigy.
• The angry mob hanged the president in effigy.

All my eye and Peggy Martin

(UK) An idiom that appears to have gone out of use but was prevalent in the English north Midlands of Staffordshire, Cheshire and Derbyshire from at least the turn of the 20th century until the early 1950s or so. The idiom's meaning is literally something said or written that is unbelievable, rumor, over embellished, the result of malicious village gossip etc.

Doggy bag

If you ask for a doggy bag in a restaurant, they will pack the food you haven't eaten for you to take home.

Shaggy dog story

A shaggy dog story is a joke which is a long story with a silly end.

play piggy in the middle

be caught between two sides of an argument: "Because they aren't talking, I've been playing piggy in the middle."

buggy-whip|buggy|whip

n., slang An unusually long, thin radio antenna on a car that bends back like a whip when the car moves fast. He's very impressed with himself ever since he got a buggy whip.

foggy bottom|bottom|fog|foggy

n., slang An area in downtown Washington, D.C. where many offices of the Department of State are located; hence figuratively, the U.S. Department of State. The press secretary gave us a lot of foggy bottom double-talk about the hostage crisis in the Near East.

hang in effigy|burn|burn in effigy|effigy|hang

v. phr. To hang or burn a figure, usually a stuffed dummy, representing a person who is disliked or scorned. When the high school team lost the championship game, the coach was hung in effigy by the townspeople. During World War II, Hitler was sometimes burned in effigy in the United States.

piggy bank|bank|piggy

n. A small bank, sometimes in the shape of a pig, for saving coins. John's father gave him a piggy bank.

piggy-back|back|piggy

adj. or adv. Sitting or being carried on the shoulders. Little John loved to go for a piggy-back ride on his father's shoulders. When Mary sprained her ankle, John carried her piggy-back to the doctor.

shaggy dog (story)|dog|shaggy|shaggy dog|shaggy do

n. phr. A special kind of joke whose long and often convoluted introduction and development delay the effect of the punch line. Uncle Joe only seems to bore his audiences with his long shaggy dog jokes, for when he comes to the long-awaited punch line, he gets very few laughs.

burn in effigy

burn in effigy
see in effigy.

effigy

effigy
see in effigy.

in effigy

in effigy
Symbolically. For example, That umpire was completely unfair—let's burn him in effigy. Now used only figuratively, this term formerly signified a way of carrying out the sentence of a criminal who had escaped, such as burn in effigy or hang in effigy. A dummy was made of the criminal or a detested political figure and subjected to the prescribed punishment. [c. 1600]

shaggy-dog story

shaggy-dog story
A long drawn-out anecdote with an absurd or anticlimactic ending. For example, At first he had us laughing wildly at his shaggy-dog stories, but after the third or fourth we found them tiresome. The term alludes to a well-known series of such stories, which involved a talking dog. [c. 1940]