English Dictionary

jig

/d͡ʒɪɡ/

verb

To move briskly, especially as a dance. / To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks. / (fishing) To fish with a jig. / To sing to the tune of a jig.

She likes to jig to the music.

意味（1）

To move briskly, especially as a dance.

The guests were jigging around on the dance floor.

意味（2）

To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.

[…]and the fin would jig off slowly, as if it were looking for nothing at all.

意味（3）

(fishing) To fish with a jig.

意味（4）

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,

意味（5）

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

意味（6）

(mining) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.

意味（7）

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