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jig-jog

jig-jog adjective: having a jolting motion.

Adjective

jig-jog (comparative more jig-jog, superlative most jig-jog)

  1. Having a jolting motion.
    • Four posts were sunk in the ground, and, by means of some cross-beams and a couple of stout ropes and pulleys, worked by two men, the passengers were lifted up and let down in a jig-jog way that gave unbounded satisfaction to the customers.1888, Edmund Finn, The Chronicles of Early Melbourne, Chapter 53

Noun

jig-jog

  1. A jolting motion
  2. a jogging pace.
    • They must not go with a long launching pace, or the poor woman would roll like a boat in a rough sea. A quiet, regular, jig-jog, never lifting the feet high from the ground, was the pace required—just the next degree in swiftness to a walk—a pace into which horses naturally fall, and which, when...1860, Sarah Stickney Ellis, “The Pillion”, in Once a Week

Verb

jig-jog (third-person singular simple present jig-jogs, present participle jig-jogging, simple past and past participle jig-jogged)

  1. To run at a jogging pace

Forms of jig-jog

Adjective
comparativemore jig-jog
superlativemost jig-jog
alternative formjigjog
Verb
third-person singular presentjig-jogs
present participlejig-jogging
past participlejig-jogged
pastjig-jogged

Questions about jig-jog

What does jig-jog mean?
Jig-jog means having a jolting motion.
What part of speech is jig-jog?
Jig-jog can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.

Words near jig-jog in the dictionary

  1. jig saws
  2. jig show
  3. jig up
  4. jig-a-jig
  5. jig-jig
  6. jig-jog
  7. jigaboo
  8. jigaboos
  9. jigajig
  10. jigamaree
  11. jigamarees

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