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jig
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Word definitions for jig in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jig \Jig\, n. [OF. gigue a stringed instrument, a kind of dance, F. gigue dance, tune, gig; of German origin; cf. MHG. g[=i]ge fiddle, G. geige. Cf. Gig a fiddle, Gig a whirligig.] 1. (Mus.) A light, brisk musical movement. Hot and hasty, like a Scotch ...
Usage examples of jig.
She kept nodding, and found herself liking Jig Arek for her single-minded enthusiasm.
Esmay gave the orders that sent Jig Arek and her team across a few hundred meters of vacuum to the other ship.
It made him so happy that he began to dance a reel, there in the middle of the mud road, whistling the tune and jigging around in a circle.
With a toss of his head he laughed aloud, jigging a few steps of a dance right there near the woodshed.
She had just reached the flower garden by the front gates when her grey gnome appeared, waving its arms in excitement and jigging up and down.
As they all waited out in the lamp-lit courtyard for the horses to be brought round, Salamander was beside himself, practically jigging where he stood.
David walked in the bright moonlight and saw the lights in the cottages and heard laughter and a jigging of fiddles, he did not find it in his heart to condemn the ancient fashions.
When I heard the porch door slam I waited until I saw her toiling up the road, the lumpy cardigan over one arm and the handbag jigging on its strap.
I cautiously open the door and see that Duane in fury appears to be reduced in size, a small square jigging knot of red-faced anger.
He saw a large number of blacksno masks, no suits, only bubble caps and hippy-dip jackets like jigs in stories.
Picardy stared at the thicket of tents and jigs and tried to remember which way to turn.
On her right, she saw a forest of blue beamsthe big industrial jigs that held the fuselage barrels in place, while they were riveted together.
They broke clear of the forest of blue jigs, looked up, saw her, and started after her.
An exultant cheer went up from everyone, and they pounded each other upon the back and danced delirious jigs of triumph in the sunlight.
To one accustomed to the open movement of country jigs and reels the thing seemed the uttermost evil--the grinning masks, the white tranced female faces, the obscene postures, above all that witch-music as horrid as a moan of terror.