jiggish, a.
(ˈdʒɪgɪʃ)
[f. jig n.1 + -ish1.]
1. Inclined to jigging, dancing, or frolicking; of light or frivolous disposition (quot. 1634).
| 1634–40 Habington Castara i. (Arb.) 16 She is never sad, and yet not jiggish. 1815 J. Scott Vis. Paris iii. (ed. 2) 39 Crowds of both sexes..gratifying the jiggish propensities of their minds by the sound of fiddles. |
2. Resembling or of the nature of a jig or light dance; suitable for a jig.
| 1709 Addison Tatler No. 157 ¶7 That Musical Instrument which is commonly known by the Name of a Kit, that is more jiggish than the Fiddle it self. 1712 Steele Spect. No. 276 ¶3 This Man makes on the Violin a certain jiggish Noise to which I dance. 1756 Cowper in Connoisseur No. 134 ¶5 The tunes themselves have also been new-set to jiggish measures. 1789 T. Twining Aristotle's Treat. Poetry (1812) I. 249 note, ‘A jiggish measure’ would be weak, to the force of the original [Greek]. |