Jiggy vs Null - What's the difference?
jiggy | null |
Of or pertaining to a jig.
(slang) Being crazy.
(slang) Being jittery, fidgety, restless, excited.
* 1989. Radford & Crowley, Drug Agent :
(slang) Being extravagant, wonderful, excellent, enjoyable, exciting, stylish, cool, successful.
* Get yourself some ''jiggy'' gear.
(slang) Having fun, enjoying oneself totally; losing one's inhibitions, especially when dancing or performing to music.
* 1997-1998.' Will Smith, ''Get '''Jiggy With It . (song)
* 1998. L.A. Times :
* 1998. People Magazine :
1965
2000}} * [1916], 2004, Annie Hamilton Donnell, Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1419134671&id=qU0TRF3GqzIC&pg=PA46&lpg=PA46&sig=omSLlDSrnJuoz4MXcYZv4kmsWCM] *: “He likes jiggy' tunes best—please sing him ' jiggy tunes.” * [1965] 1997, Alan Lomax, Jean Ritchie, Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0813109272&id=7zF6mDo_GJgC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&sig=Jp2rPhf8QBFjX6DvPObEbPJqmWg] *: We have always known this “little foolish thing”—Dad’s description of “The Swapping Song.” Very often it is used for baby-bouncing, because of its jiggy rhythm. * 2000, Charles Wolfe, in “Bluegrass Touches—An Interview with Bill Monroe,” in The Bill Monroe Reader, Tom Ewing ed. [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0252025008&id=MnMROS4srL8C&pg=PA82&lpg=PA82&sig=cuCncU2N2-2uyfp6Q330JnUdRTA] *: Wolfe: When you were growing up in Kentucky, did they use the long bow or this so-called jiggy bow? *: Bill:'' Well, that jiggy''' bow didn’t come out till the Georgia shuffle, and that’s where a lot of that started from. Of course, a lot of fiddlers played a little ' jiggy bow, but most of them had a little shuffle. A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As an adjective jiggy
is of or pertaining to a jig.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.jiggy
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He's gone completely jiggy .
- If I was too jiggy to hold the syringe, he'd shoot me up .
- Just can't sit
- Gotta get jiggy wit it
- Latin groovers get jiggy at the mercury-hot Conga Room on Wilshire Boulevard.
- ''When Ally McBeal's writers decided to have ...Calista Flockhart get jiggy with an imaginary dancing baby..."
Derived terms
* jiggy-jiggy * get jiggyQuotations
{{timeline, 1900s=19161965
2000}} * [1916], 2004, Annie Hamilton Donnell, Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1419134671&id=qU0TRF3GqzIC&pg=PA46&lpg=PA46&sig=omSLlDSrnJuoz4MXcYZv4kmsWCM] *: “He likes jiggy' tunes best—please sing him ' jiggy tunes.” * [1965] 1997, Alan Lomax, Jean Ritchie, Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0813109272&id=7zF6mDo_GJgC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&sig=Jp2rPhf8QBFjX6DvPObEbPJqmWg] *: We have always known this “little foolish thing”—Dad’s description of “The Swapping Song.” Very often it is used for baby-bouncing, because of its jiggy rhythm. * 2000, Charles Wolfe, in “Bluegrass Touches—An Interview with Bill Monroe,” in The Bill Monroe Reader, Tom Ewing ed. [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0252025008&id=MnMROS4srL8C&pg=PA82&lpg=PA82&sig=cuCncU2N2-2uyfp6Q330JnUdRTA] *: Wolfe: When you were growing up in Kentucky, did they use the long bow or this so-called jiggy bow? *: Bill:'' Well, that jiggy''' bow didn’t come out till the Georgia shuffle, and that’s where a lot of that started from. Of course, a lot of fiddlers played a little ' jiggy bow, but most of them had a little shuffle.
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English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.