Dictionary Entry
jig
jig is a 3-letter English word with 17 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A light, brisk musical movement. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 17 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A light, brisk musical movement.
- 2noun
A light, humorous piece of writing, esp. in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.
- 3noun
A piece of sport; a trick; a prank.
- 4noun
A trolling bait, consisting of a bright spoon and a hook attached.
- 5noun
A small machine or handy tool
- 6noun
A contrivance fastened to or inclosing a piece of work, and having hard steel surfaces to guide a tool, as a drill, or to form a shield or templet to work to, as in filing.
- 7noun
An apparatus or a machine for jigging ore.
- 8transitive verb
To sing to the tune of a jig.
- 9transitive verb
To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
- 10transitive verb
To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve. See Jigging.
- 11noun
To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
- 12intransitive verb
To dance a jig; to skip about.
- 13noun
any of various old rustic dances involving kicking and leaping
- 14noun
a device that holds a piece of machine work and guides the tools operating on it
- 15noun
a fisherman's lure with one or more hooks that is jerked up and down in the water
- 16noun
music in three-four time for dancing a jig
Synonyms
- 17verb
dance a quick dance with leaping and kicking motions
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