jig

[Jig]

A jig is a lively, festive kind of dance. When you do a jig, you spend a lot of time hopping, kicking, and shuffling your feet.

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A light, brisk musical movement.

Noun
any of various old rustic dances involving kicking and leaping

Noun
music in three-four time for dancing a jig

Verb
dance a quick dance with leaping and kicking motions

n.
A light, brisk musical movement.

n.
A light, humorous piece of writing, esp. in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.

n.
A piece of sport; a trick; a prank.

n.
A trolling bait, consisting of a bright spoon and a hook attached.

n.
A small machine or handy tool

n.
A contrivance fastened to or inclosing a piece of work, and having hard steel surfaces to guide a tool, as a drill, or to form a shield or templet to work to, as in filing.

n.
An apparatus or a machine for jigging ore.

v. t.
To sing to the tune of a jig.

v. t.
To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.

v. t.
To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve. See Jigging, n.

n.
To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.

v. i.
To dance a jig; to skip about.

Jig

Jig , n. [OF. gigue a stringed instrument, a kind of dance, F. gigue dance, tune, gig; of German origin; cf. MHG. g'c6ge fiddle, G. geige. Cf. Gig a fiddle, Gig a whirligig.] 1. (Mus.) A light, brisk musical movement.
Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jib.
3. A light, humorous piece of writing, esp. in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad. [Obs.]
A jig shall be clapped at, and every rhyme Praised and applauded.
4. A piece of sport; a trick; a prank. [Obs.]
Is't not a fine jig, A precious cunning, in the late Protector?
5. A trolling bait, consisting of a bright spoon and a hook attached. 6. (Mach.) (a) A small machine or handy tool; esp.: (Metal Working) A contrivance fastened to or inclosing a piece of work, and having hard steel surfaces to guide a tool, as a drill, or to form a shield or templet to work to, as in filing. (b) (Mining) An apparatus or a machine for jigging ore. Drill jig, a jig for guiding a drill. See Jig, 6 (a). -- Jig drilling, Jig filing (Metal Working), a process of drilling or filing in which the action of the tool is directed or limited by a jig. -- Jig saw, a sawing machine with a narrow, vertically reciprocating saw, used to cut curved and irregular lines, or ornamental patterns in openwork, a scroll saw; -- called also gig saw.

Jig

Jig, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jigged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Jigging .] 1. To sing to the tune of a jig.
Jig off a tune at the tongue's end.
2. To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude. Ford. 3. (Mining) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve. See Jigging, n. 4. (Metal Working) To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.

Jig

Jig, v. i. To dance a jig; to skip about.
You jig, you amble, and you lisp.

A light, brisk musical movement.

To sing to the tune of a jig.

To dance a jig; to skip about.

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Usage Examples

I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony.

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