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Wiki vs Jiggy - What's the difference?

wiki | jiggy |

As a proper noun wiki

is (proscribed) wikipedia.

As an adjective jiggy is

of or pertaining to a jig.

wiki

English

(wikipedia wiki)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A collaborative website which can be directly edited merely by using a web browser, often by anyone with access to it.
  • Derived terms

    * interwiki

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To research on Wikipedia or some similar wiki.
  • To get an understanding of the topics, he quickly went online and wikied each one.
  • *
  • * '>citation
  • *
  • To conduct research on a wiki.
  • To contribute to a wiki.
  • *
  • *
  • *
  • To participate in the wiki-based production of.
  • * '>citation
  • Derived terms

    * wikify * wikiholic * wikilink * The names of many wiki-based Web projects, e.g. Wikipedia, Wikisource, ), (WikiLeaks), (Wikibooks), (Wikimedia Foundation).

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    Anagrams

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    jiggy

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to a jig.
  • (slang) Being crazy.
  • He's gone completely jiggy .
  • (slang) Being jittery, fidgety, restless, excited.
  • * 1989. Radford & Crowley, Drug Agent :
  • If I was too jiggy to hold the syringe, he'd shoot me up .
  • (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)
  • Just can't sit
    Gotta get jiggy wit it
  • * 1998. L.A. Times :
  • Latin groovers get jiggy at the mercury-hot Conga Room on Wilshire Boulevard.
  • * 1998. People Magazine :
  • ''When Ally McBeal's writers decided to have ...Calista Flockhart get jiggy with an imaginary dancing baby..."

    Derived terms

    * jiggy-jiggy * get jiggy

    Quotations

    {{timeline, 1900s=1916
    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.