Jiggy

From Fresh Dictionary

Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Adjective 1.3 Derived terms 1.4 Quotations

English

Etymology

jig + -y

Adjective

jiggy

1. Of or pertaining to a jig.

Derived terms

• jiggy-jiggy
• get jiggy (with it)

Quotations

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• [1916], 2004, Annie Hamilton Donnell, Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings [1]

  “He likes jiggy tunes best—please sing him jiggy tunes.”

• [1965] 1997, Alan Lomax, Jean Ritchie, Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians [2]

  We have always known this “little foolish thing”—Dad’s description of “The Swapping Song.” Very often it is used for baby-bouncing, because of its jiggy rhythm.

• 2000, Charles Wolfe, in “Bluegrass Touches—An Interview with Bill Monroe,” in The Bill Monroe Reader, Tom Ewing ed. [3]

  Wolfe: When you were growing up in Kentucky, did they use the long bow or this so-called jiggy bow?

  Bill: Well, that jiggy bow didn’t come out till the Georgia shuffle, and that’s where a lot of that started from. Of course, a lot of fiddlers played a little jiggy bow, but most of them had a little shuffle.