Jigged vs Figged - What's the difference?
jigged | figged |
(jig)
(music) A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.
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A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.
(fishing) A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.
(mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
(obsolete) A light, humorous piece of writing, especially in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.
* (rfdate) Beaumont and Fletcher
(obsolete) A trick; a prank.
* (rfdate) Beaumont and Fletcher
To move briskly, especially as a dance.
(fishing) To fish with a jig.
To sing to the tune of a jig.
* Shakespeare
To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
(mining) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.
To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
(fig)
A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics.
The fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds.
A small piece of tobacco.
The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; a whit.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible.
To move suddenly or quickly; rove about.
As verbs the difference between jigged and figged
is that jigged is past tense of jig while figged is past tense of fig.jigged
English
Verb
(head)jig
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Noun
(en noun)- they danced a jig
- Soon Marshall is doing an elaborate foot-to-foot jig , and then they're all bounding around. Shoulder dips. Yee-ha faces. It's an impromptu hoedown.
- Cutting circles out of pinewood is best done with a compass-style jig .
- A jig shall be clapped at, and every rhyme / Praised and applauded.
- Is't not a fine jig , / A precious cunning, in the late Protector?
Derived terms
* the jig is up * dance the hempen jigVerb
- The guests were jigging around on the dancefloor
- Jig off a tune at the tongue's end.
- (Ford)
figged
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Verb
(head)fig
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) fige, fygge (also fyke, from (etyl) )Andreas Franz and Wilhelm Schimper, Plant Geography Upon a Physiological Basis , volume 2 (Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, 1902), page 100. Another (etyl) root (compare (etyl) ; whence (etyl) sycophant.Noun
(en noun)- I'll pledge you all; and a fig for Peter!
Derived terms
* caprifig * fig leaf * figgy * figtree * not give a figVerb
(figg)- When Pistol lies, do this, and fig me like / The bragging Spaniard.