Jigged vs Jigget - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between jigged and jigget

is that jigged is (jig) while jigget is (dated) to gad; to move from one place to another in a (seemingly) flippant or idle manner.

As a noun jigget is

a leg (of meat, regarded as food); a gigot of beef or lamb or other meat.

jigged

English

Verb

(head)

(jig)

jig

English

Noun

(en noun)

(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.

they danced a jig

* 2012 , Tom Lamont, How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world'' (in ''The Daily Telegraph , 15 November 2012)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/nov/15/mumford-sons-biggest-band-world]

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.

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.

Cutting circles out of pinewood is best done with a compass-style jig .

(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

A jig shall be clapped at, and every rhyme / Praised and applauded.

(obsolete) A trick; a prank.

* (rfdate) Beaumont and Fletcher

Is't not a fine jig , / A precious cunning, in the late Protector?

Derived terms

* the jig is up * dance the hempen jig

Verb

To move briskly, especially as a dance.

The guests were jigging around on the dancefloor

(fishing) To fish with a jig.

To sing to the tune of a jig.

* Shakespeare

Jig off a tune at the tongue's end.

To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.

(Ford)

(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.

jigget

English

Etymology 1

Variant of gigot .

Noun

(en noun)

A leg (of meat, regarded as food); a gigot of beef or lamb or other meat.

a jigget of beef

jiggets of mutton

Etymology 2

Possibly related to jiggle .

Verb

(dated) To gad; to move from one place to another in a (seemingly) flippant or idle manner.

* 1814 , Fanny Burney, The Wanderer, or, Female difficulties , page 290:

" and jiggetting to outlandish countries, you'll do well to give her a hint to keep astern of me; for I shall never uphold a person who behaves o' that sort."

* 1818 , Mary Russel Mitford, in a letter to William Elford, The Life of Mary Russell Mitford , page 288:

I don't believe he is ever two days in a place — always jiggeting about from one great house to another.

* 1831 , Walter Scott, The Abbot'', in ''Waverley novels , volume 19, page 230:

here you stand jiggetting , and sniggling, and looking cunning, as if there were some mighty matter of intrigue and common understanding betwixt you and me, whom you never set your eyes on before!

* 1906 , Richard Davey, The pageant of London , volume 2, page 365:

but although he knew his Queen was dead, he went on jiggetting as if nothing had happened!

* (rfdate), Rudyard Kipling, Kim :

Of all the boys hurrying back to St Xavier's, from Sukkur in the sands to Galle beneath the palms, none was so filled with virtue as Kimball O'Hara, jiggetting down to Umballa behind Hurree Chunder Mookerjee,