| 释义 |
▪ I. jigget, v. colloq.|ˈdʒɪgɪt|
Also 9 jiggit.
[dim. of jig v.]
intr. To move about with a jerky or shaky motion; to jig; to hop or skip about; to shake up and down; to fidget. Hence ˈjiggeting vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1687A. Behn Lucky Chance ii. ii, Come, my Lady Fulbank, the night grows old upon our hands, to danceing, to jiggeting. 1709T. Baker Fem. Tatler No. 15 She..has a languishing Eye, a delicious soft Hand, and two pretty jiggetting Feet. 1818Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) II. 35 He is..always jiggeting about from one great house to another. 1862C. M. Yonge C'tess Kate iv. (1864) 55 There's Aunt Barbara coming down the lane in the baker's jiggetting cart. 1898R. Kipling Fleet in Being i. 4 At eight knots you heard the vicious little twin-screws jiggitting like restive horses; at seventeen they pegged away into the sea like a pair of short-gaited trotting ponies on a hard road.
▪ II. jigget, jiggetai
var. gigot1, dziggetai. |