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Bigging vs Jigging - What's the difference?

bigging | jigging |

As verbs the difference between bigging and jigging

is that bigging is while jigging is .

As nouns the difference between bigging and jigging

is that bigging is (obsolete) a home while jigging is the act of dancing a jig.

bigging

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A home.
  • (Scotland, northern England) A building, especially an outbuilding.
  • *1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 18:
  • *:The back door, that behind the pulpit, led out across the kirkyard to the Manse and its biggings , set up in the time of the Old Queen
  • (coffee pot with strainer)

    • jigging

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of dancing a jig.
  • * 1837 , Memoirs of Mirabeau'' (in ''The Westminster Review , volume 26, page 436)
    • There are to whom the gods, in their bounty, give glory: but far oftener it is given in wrath, as a curse and a poison; disturbing the whole inner health and industry of the man; leading onward through dizzy staggerings and tarantula jiggings
  • (mining) The act of using a jig; the act of separating ore with a jigger, or wire-bottomed sieve, which is moved up and down in water.