jig – English noun declension

English noun forms of jig

Noun: jig
Singularjig
Pluraljigs

Sample Sentences

  • They danced a jig.
  • Soon Marshall is doing an elaborate foot-to-foot jig, and then they're all bounding around. Shoulder dips. Yee-ha faces. It's an impromptu hoedown. [2012 November 15, Tom Lamont, “How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world”, in The Daily Telegraph:]
  • They were waked out of their bunks one black night by yells of "Squid O!" from Salters, and for an hour and a half every soul aboard hung over his squid-jig—a piece of lead painted red and armed at the lower end with a circle of pins bent backward like half-opened umbrella ribs. [1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:]
  • Cutting circles out of pinewood is best done with a compass-style jig.
  • The bodywork employs, where possible, the same constructional methods as for the standard B.R. coaching stock, in order to utilise existing jigs and press tools. [1959 March, “The 2,500 h.p. electric locomotives for the Kent Coast electrification”, in Trains Illustrated, page 125:]
  • The craze for realism now led the toy manufacturers to try to make their models from still secret plans for the new cars. Should a car firm scrap its plans and jigs, the toy firm had to follow suit. [1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 90:]
  • I used a doweling jig to drill the holes in the legs before assembly. [2026 August 26, Collin Knoff, “Mid-Century Modern Table”, in Popular Woodworking, volume 290, number 4, page 50:]
  • A jig shall be clapped at, and every rhyme / Praised and applauded by a clamorous chime. [1647, John Fletcher, Beaumont and Fletcher, The Fair Maid of the Inn:]
  • This Innovation? Is't not a fine Jigg? / A precious cunning in the late Protector / To shuffle a new Prince into the State. [1635, James Shirley, The Coronation:]

Etymology

Unknown. Derivation from Middle English gyge (“fiddle”), from Old French gigue (“a fiddle”) has been proposed, but the connection and sense development are obscure. The sense “a type of dance” of modern French gigue is borrowed from English. See: Middle English Nouns 'gyge'.

Verbs referencing "jig"

German Nouns Geige, Finnish Nouns jigi.