Jiggy vs Ziggy - What's the difference?
jiggy | ziggy |
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.
As adjectives the difference between jiggy and ziggy
is that jiggy is of or pertaining to a jig while ziggy is zigzaggy.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.
