1. jig - Noun
2. jig - Verb
A light, brisk musical movement.
A light, humorous piece of writing, esp. in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.
A piece of sport; a trick; a prank.
A trolling bait, consisting of a bright spoon and a hook attached.
A small machine or handy tool
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.
An apparatus or a machine for jigging ore.
To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve. See Jigging, n.
To dance a jig; to skip about.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMy oh My, what a wretched Life. I was born on the day that my poor mama died. I was cut from Her belly with a stanley knife. My daddy did a jig with the drunk midwife. Nick Cave
you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig. Ken Follett
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. Matt Groening
Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig. (150) Malcolm Gladwell
Once fishing was a rabbit's foot-- O wind blow cold, O wind blow hot, Let suns stay in or suns step out: Life danced a jig on the sperm-whale's spout-- The fisher's fluent and obscene Catches kept his conscience clean. Robert Lowell
Again he struck the harp and began the jig. But this time it was such music as never came from a harp. Robertson Davies