Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. the nose.

1660		‘A Dialogue betwixt Tom and Dick’ in Rump Poems and Songs (1662) II 191: And yet if George don’t hum his Gigg.
1674		Head Canting Academy (2nd edn) 174: Gigg The Nose.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Gig c. a Nose [...] Snichel the Gig, c. Fillip the Fellow on the Nose.
1707		J. Shirley Triumph of Wit 194: Snatchel him on the Gigg [Fillip him on the Nose].
1719		A. Smith Lives of Most Notorious Highway-men, etc. (1926) 206: Gig, nose. Smibel the gig, i.e., fillip the fellow on the nose.
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1754		Scoundrel’s Dict. 18: A Nose – Gigg.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
c.1850		Duncombe New and Improved Flash Dict.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum.
1862		E. de la Bédollière Londres et les Anglais 314/2: gigg, nez.
1881		Trumble Sl. Dict. (1890).

2. the mouth.

1827		Key of Pierce Egan’s Trip to Ascot Races [printed panorama] [T]he slouched castor, the open breeches at the knees, the short jacket, the fogle loosely twisted round his squeeze, the large wedge broach, the long quartered shoe and silver buckles, the bit of myrtle in his gig, and the cut altogether of a ‘rolling kiddy’.
1830		Egan Finish to the Adventures of Tom and Jerry (1889) 175: [as 1827].