jigged

Verb

jig (third-person singular simple present jigs, present participle jigging, simple past and past participle jigged)

1. To move briskly, especially as a dance.
   • The guests were jigging around on the dance floor.
2. To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.
   • the candle-flame stretched itself tall, and began jigging up and down.1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
3. To fish with a jig.
4. To sing to the tune of a jig.
   • No, my complete master, but to jig off a tune at the tongue’s end, canary to it with your feet, humor it with turning up your eyelids,c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
5. To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
   • Make thy moan to ballad singers and rhymers ; they'll jig out thy wretchedness and abominations to new tunes1633, Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], Loues Sacrifice. A Tragedie […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Hugh Beeston, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page)
6. To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.

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