Little Known Shig Shag Fact #327:
SHIG-SHAG, an Oak Tree; a Maple Tree; "Shig Shag Day" = the 29th May.
Mr. Summers writes: "I remember that oak branches with the oak-apple galls used to be called shik-shak in Surrey, and the 29th of May was known as 'Shik-Shak Day'; and as I have noticed that maple and oak are gathered indiscriminately on that day in Devonshire, I suppose this is the connection." Halliwell says Shick-shack- day is a term used in Surrey for the 29th May, or Royal Oak-Day.
(Quoted from three articles published in the "Records of Buckinghamshire"
by Alfred Heneage Cocks, M.A, between 1897 and 1909.)
Dance! Dance!
SHIGGLE-SHAGGLE, TO, to trot at an uneven pace (as a horse).
SHIGGLY SHAGGLY, irregularly, joltingly.
