jiggy

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Adjective 1.3.1 Related terms 1.3.2 Derived terms 1.4 Quotations

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪɡi

[edit] Etymology

jig + -y

[edit] Adjective

jiggy (comparative more jiggy, superlative most jiggy)

1. Of or pertaining to a jig.
2. (slang) Being crazy.

   He's gone completely jiggy.

3. (slang) Being jittery, fidgety, restless, excited.
   • 1989. Radford & Crowley, Drug Agent:

     If I was too jiggy to hold the syringe, he'd shoot me up.

4. (slang) Being extravagant, wonderful, excellent, enjoyable, exciting, stylish, cool, successful.
   • Get yourself some jiggy gear.
5. (slang) Having fun, enjoying oneself totally; losing one's inhibitions, especially when dancing or performing to music.
   • 1997-1998. Will Smith, Get Jiggy With It. (song)

     Just can't sit

     Gotta get jiggy wit it

   • 1998. L.A. Times:

     Latin groovers get jiggy at the mercury-hot Conga Room on Wilshire Boulevard.

   • 1998. People Magazine:

     When Ally McBeal's writers decided to have ...Calista Flockhart get jiggy with an imaginary dancing baby..."

[edit] Related terms

• get down (with it).

[edit] Derived terms

• jiggy-jiggy
• get jiggy

[edit] 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.