A young girl or woman; a playful term for a female child or adolescent, possibly carrying a slight undertone of mischief.
Likely a variant or dialectal form related to 'gigget.' Both forms share roots in older English diminutive patterns. The exact origin is obscure, but '-it' is a less common diminutive ending than '-et.'
Regional dialects preserve these rare diminutives—words like 'giggit' survived in pockets of England or Scotland where traditional speech patterns lasted longer, and now they're fossils in the lexicon.
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