Definitions from Wiktionary (Jig)
▸ noun: (music) A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
▸ noun: (traditional Irish music and dance) 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.
▸ noun: (traditional English Morris dance) A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.
▸ noun: (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: (mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A light, humorous piece of writing, especially in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A trick; a prank.
▸ verb: To move briskly, especially as a dance.
▸ verb: To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.
▸ verb: (fishing) To fish with a jig.
▸ verb: To sing to the tune of a jig.
▸ verb: To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
▸ verb: (mining) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.
▸ verb: To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
▸ verb: To skip school or be truant (Australia, Canadian Maritimes)
▸ noun: (US, offensive, slang, dated, ethnic slur) A black person.
▸ noun: (World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter J.
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▸ noun: (music) A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
▸ noun: (traditional Irish music and dance) 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.
▸ noun: (traditional English Morris dance) A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.
▸ noun: (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: (mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A light, humorous piece of writing, especially in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A trick; a prank.
▸ verb: To move briskly, especially as a dance.
▸ verb: To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.
▸ verb: (fishing) To fish with a jig.
▸ verb: To sing to the tune of a jig.
▸ verb: To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
▸ verb: (mining) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.
▸ verb: To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
▸ verb: To skip school or be truant (Australia, Canadian Maritimes)
▸ noun: (US, offensive, slang, dated, ethnic slur) A black person.
▸ noun: (World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter J.
▸ Also see jig
▸ Words similar to jiging
▸ Usage examples for jiging
▸ Idioms related to jiging
▸ Wikipedia articles (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing jiging
▸ Words that often appear near jiging
▸ Rhymes of jiging
▸ Invented words related to jiging