Gig vs Nig - What's the difference?
gig | nig |
(informal, music) A performing engagement by a musical group; or, generally, any job or role for a musician or performer.
(informal, by extension) Any job; especially one that is temporary; or alternately, one that is very desirable.
A two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage.
* 1967 , William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner , Vintage 2004, p. 77:
(archaic) A forked spear for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals.
(South England) A six-oared sea rowing boat commonly found in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
(US, military) A demerit received for some infraction of military dress or deportment codes.
To fish or catch with a gig, or fish spear.
To engage in musical performances.
To make fun of; to make a joke at someone's expense, often condescending.
(US, military) To impose a demerit for an infraction of a dress or deportment code.
(colloquial, computing) A gigabyte.
(offensive, racial slur) nigger
* 1959 , Don Robertson, The three days
* 1961 , Robert Hale Strong, A Yankee private's Civil War
* 1967 , Frank Hercules, I want a black doll
As nouns the difference between gig and nig
is that gig is gig (performing engagement by a musical group, usually used when referring to events with small audience and contemporary music such as rock or punk) while nig is (offensive|racial slur) nigger.gig
English
Etymology 1
Akin to Old Norse .Noun
(en noun)- I caught one of the Rolling Stones' first gigs in Richmond .
- Hey, when are we gonna get that hotel gig again?
- Our guitar player had another gig so we had to get a sub.
- I had this gig as a file clerk but it wasn't my style so I left .
- Hey, that guy's got a great gig over at the bike shop. He hardly works all day!
- the room grew stifling warm and vapor clung to the windowpanes, blurring the throng of people still milling outside the courthouse, a row of tethered gigs and buggies, distant pine trees in a scrawny, ragged grove.
- I received gigs for having buttons undone.
Verb
- The Stones were gigging around Richmond at the time
- His older cousin was just gigging him about being in love with that girl from school.
- His sergeant gigged him for an unmade bunk.
Etymology 2
A shortening of (gigabyte).Noun
(en-noun)- This picture is almost a gig ; don't you wanna resize it?
- How much music does it hold?'' ''A hundred and twenty gigs .
Etymology 3
(etyl) gigge.Etymology 4
Probably from (etyl) (lena) .nig
English
Noun
(en noun)- He always thought one step ahead of the nigs .
- In a field near the house was a nigger working a poor old broken-down mule and another nigger sowing wheat. When we came up, both nigs quit work and stared at us.
- What part did she play in your marrying a nig — a black man — nig, nig — Negro?
