jig
Speech parts
1. jig - Noun
2. jig - Verb
Meaning
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.
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Examples
My 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.
you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.
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)
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.
Again he struck the harp and began the jig. But this time it was such music as never came from a harp.