subs. (obsolete).—A wanton wench; a strumpet; an affected mincing woman.
1598. FLORIO, A Worlde of Wordes, s.v. Faina, a mincing, coie, nice, puling, squeamish woman, an idle huswife, a flurt, a GIXGI. Also as Foina [i.e., ‘a polecat’; while Foirare = ‘to lust for beastly leacherie, to be salt as a bitch.’]
1611. COTGRAVE, Dictionarie, s.v. Gadrouillette: f. A minx, gigle, flirt, callet, GIXIE (a fained word applyable to any such cattell). [See further, gadriller (a wench) = ‘to raump, or play the rig.’]
