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Jagging vs Jigging - What's the difference?

jagging | jigging |

As verbs the difference between jagging and jigging

is that jagging is present participle of lang=en while jigging is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun jigging is

the act of dancing a jig.

jagging

English

Verb

(head)

    • 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.