jig-a-jig, jig-a-jog
[See also jig-jig.]
Imitative words expressing reiteration or alternation of light, short, jerky movements (see jig v. 2, jog v. 3); they may be used:
1. a. as adv. = with a jigging or jogging motion; b. as adj. = having such a motion; c. as n. = such motion itself; d. as v. = to move in such a way.
| 1602 Dekker Satirom. Wks. 1873 I. 221 Thou shalt be carted, drawne I meane, Coacht, Coacht, thou shalt ryde Iigga-Iogge. 1614 B. Jonson Barth. Fair Induct., Hee would ha' made you such a Iig-a-iogge i' the boothes, you should ha' thought an Earthquake had been in the Fayre. 1659 Torriano, Baccoláre,..to play at titter-totter, giggajoggie. 1837 Marryat Olla Podr. xxix, It was a regular jig-a-jig. Ibid., The whole company..were jig-a-jigging up and down. |
2. as n. In the sense ‘sexual intercourse’; also as v., to copulate. slang.
| 1896 Farmer & Henley Slang IV. 54/2 Jig-a-jig, to copulate. 1932 L. Golding Magnolia St. ii. xiv. 468 This was..the red lamp district... The women stopped... ‘Jig-a-jig, Johnny? Very nice!’ they said. 1935 Auden & Isherwood Dog beneath Skin i. v. 58 Come wiv me. Good Jig-a-Jig. 1953 A. Baron Human Kind xvii. 124 He put his hand on her knee. ‘You like jig-a-jig?’ 1966 ‘E. Lindall’ Time too Soon (1967) iv. 49 This woman's master has jig-a-jig with my blood sister. |