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jig-jig en · NOUN

Etymology

Probably onomatopoeic. Compare jig and jiggle.

Meanings

  1. (qualifier:chiefly pidgin English, uncountable) sexual intercourse, sex
    • ‘Pretty girl jig jig by-and-by.’ 1948, Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter:
    • “Only twenty-eight days more, I go to fucking India. Plenty jig-jig. No more whanimidi!” Abdullah gestured with his hands to signify masturbation. “Jig-jig” clearly meant the preferred alternative. 1998, David Marion Wilkinson, The Empty Quarter:
    • ‘No jig-jig here,’ Wordsworth said. ‘If you wan jig-jig you take her to hotel.’ 1969, Graham Greene, Travels with My Aunt:
    • “Ah! you want jig-jig?” “No, goddamnit, I don’t want no fucking jig-jig,” Jordan replied impatiently. The boy’s vocabulary in English was limited to ‘You buy, hubba-hubba, booze-o,’ and a few other important phrases leading to a multiplication of numbers equaling yen. 2002, Jan Merlin, Ainoko:
    • JIG JIG. Intercourse. American soldiers heard it as zig zig in France and also in New Caledonia and elsewhere in the South Pacific. 1948, Eugene B. Vest, “Native Words Learned by American Soldiers in India and Burma in World War II”, in American Speech, volume 23, number 3/4:
    • I infuriated them when they came to me by answering only the British officer and acting as if the French one could only understand music-hall pidgin-Franglais (he spoke English perfectly well). “Nice country, non? Mini-skirts, mademoiselles, oo la la. It rains always but plenty jig-jig, wee-wee — you wanna go?” 1996, Albert Meltzer, I Couldn't Paint Golden Angels:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
jig jig alternative lexicographic

Synonyms

humpa humpa · horizontal mambo · rumpy-pumpy · snu snu

jig-jig en · VERB

Etymology

Probably onomatopoeic. Compare jig and jiggle.

Meanings

  1. to have sex
    • Doc jig-jig pretty much with anyone interested in jig-jigging him. 1998, David Marion Wilkinson, The Empty Quarter:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
jig-jigs Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
jig jig alternative lexicographic
jig-jigged Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
jig-jigged Tense=Past lexicographic
jig-jigging Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Synonyms

bang · get it on · do it