Jignoun

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  radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter J.

jignoun詞源 1/d͡ʒɪɡ/

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  entertainmentlifestylemusicA light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.

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  dancedancingentertainmentA lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.

  • They danced a jig.
  • Soon Marshall is doing an elaborate foot-to-foot jig, and then they're all bounding around. Shoulder dips. Yee-ha faces. It's an impromptu hoedown.
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  A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.

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  fishinghobbieslifestyleA type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.

  • They were waked out of their bunks one black night by yells of "Squid O!" from Salters, and for an hour and a half every soul aboard hung over his squid-jig—a piece of lead painted red and armed at the lower end with a circle of pins bent backward like half-opened umbrella ribs.
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  A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.

  • Cutting circles out of pinewood is best done with a compass-style jig.
  • The bodywork employs, where possible, the same constructional methods as for the standard B.R. coaching stock, in order to utilise existing jigs and press tools.
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  businessminingAn apparatus or machine for jigging ore.

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  obsoleteA light, humorous piece of writing, especially in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.

  • A jig shall be clapped at, and every rhyme / Praised and applauded by a clamorous chime.
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  obsoleteA trick; a prank.

  • This Innovation? Is't not a fine Jigg? / A precious cunning in the late Protector / To shuffle a new Prince into the State.

jigverb詞源 1/d͡ʒɪɡ/

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  To move briskly, especially as a dance.

  • The guests were jigging around on the dance floor.
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  To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.

  • the candle-flame stretched itself tall, and began jigging up and down.
  • […]and the fin would jig off slowly, as if it were looking for nothing at all.
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  fishinghobbieslifestyleTo fish with a jig.

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  To sing to the tune of a jig.

  • No, my complete master, but to jig off a tune at the tongue’s end, canary to it with your feet, humor it with turning up your eyelids,
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  To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.

  • Make thy moan to ballad singers and rhymers ; they'll jig out thy wretchedness and abominations to new tunes
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  businessminingTo sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.

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

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  To skip school or be truant.

jignoun詞源 2/d͡ʒɪɡ/

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  offensiveslurdatedslangA black person.

  • “You got a new jig, huh?” The boy looked out at Jones through his swirls of oiled hair. “What happened to the last one? He die or something?”
  • This type of pickpocket, it should be noted, is passing from the scene; most class cannons now operating are old-timers. “The only youngsters I see breaking in on the whiz are jigs, and they are coining a bebop lingo that is something. […]