jig
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
dance
dancing
entertainment
fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
mining
music
sports
Etymology: Unknown. Derivation from Middle English gyge (“fiddle”), from Old French gigue (“a fiddle”) has been proposed, but the connection and sense development are obscure. The sense “a type of dance” of modern French gigue is borrowed from English.
Inflected forms:
form: jigs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jigs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jigging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jigged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jigged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
pos: noun
gloss: A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.
pos: noun
tags: Irish
traditional
examples: They danced a jig.
Soon Marshall is doing an elaborate foot-to-foot jig, and then they're all bounding around. Shoulder dips. Yee-ha faces. It's an impromptu hoedown.
gloss: A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.
pos: noun
gloss: A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
pos: noun
examples: They were waked out of their bunks one black night by yells of "Squid O!" from Salters, and for an hour and a half every soul aboard hung over his squid-jig—a piece of lead painted red and armed at the lower end with a circle of pins bent backward like half-opened umbrella ribs.
gloss: A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.
pos: noun
examples: Cutting circles out of pinewood is best done with a compass-style jig.
The bodywork employs, where possible, the same constructional methods as for the standard B.R. coaching stock, in order to utilise existing jigs and press tools.
The craze for realism now led the toy manufacturers to try to make their models from still secret plans for the new cars. Should a car firm scrap its plans and jigs, the toy firm had to follow suit.
gloss: An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
pos: noun
gloss: A light, humorous piece of writing, especially in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: A jig shall be clapped at, and every rhyme / Praised and applauded by a clamorous chime.
gloss: A trick; a prank.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: This Innovation? Is't not a fine Jigg? / A precious cunning in the late Protector / To shuffle a new Prince into the State.
gloss: To move briskly, especially as a dance.
pos: verb
examples: The guests were jigging around on the dance floor.
gloss: To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.
pos: verb
examples: the candle-flame stretched itself tall, and began jigging up and down.
[…]and the fin would jig off slowly, as if it were looking for nothing at all.
gloss: To fish with a jig.
pos: verb
gloss: To sing to the tune of a jig.
pos: verb
examples: No, my complete master, but to jig off a tune at the tongue’s end, canary to it with your feet, humor it with turning up your eyelids,
gloss: To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
pos: verb
examples: Make thy moan to ballad singers and rhymers ; they'll jig out thy wretchedness and abominations to new tunes
gloss: To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.
pos: verb
gloss: To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
pos: verb
gloss: To skip school or be truant.
pos: verb
Derived words: dance the hempen jig
dance the Tyburn jig
drill jig
hangman's jig
in jig time
jig borer
jigger
jiggish
jiggity
jiggle
jiggy
jighead
jig-jig
jig-jog
jiglike
jig saw
jigsaw
jig show
one's jig is up
outjig
pocket-hole jig
the jig is up
thingamajig
jig up
rejig
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