jiggetv.
/ˈdʒɪɡɪt/ colloquial.
intransitive. To move about with a jerky or shaky motion; to jig; to hop or skip about; to shake up and down; to fidget.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > move to and fro or up and down [verb (intransitive)] > jog or jolt to and fro or up and down
jouncec1440
jog1586
fig1595
jig1604
jopper1607
jot?1611
squirt1611
jeta1635
jolt1788
jigget1818
jig-a-jig1840
jolter1864
1818 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) II. 35 He is..always jiggeting about from one great house to another.
1898 R. 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.
Derivatives
ˈjiggeting n. and adj.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > [noun] > jogging or jolting to and fro or up and down
figging1577
jolting1648
jetting1676
jiggeting1687
jigging1806
bumping1842
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > [adjective] > jogging or jolting to and fro or up and down
figging1577
jigging1590
jolting1598
jiggeting1687
jolty1835
jaggy1842
jiggety1876
1687 A. Behn Luckey Chance ii. ii. 26 Come my Lady Fulbank, the Night grows old upon our hands, to dancing, to jiggeting.
1709 Female Tatler No. 15 She..has a languishing Eye, a delicious soft Hand, and two pretty jiggetting Feet.
1862 C. M. Yonge Countess Kate iv. 55 There's Aunt Barbara coming down the lane in the baker's jiggetting cart.
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