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jig-jog en · ADJ

Meanings

1. Having a jolting motion.
   • Four posts were sunk in the ground, and, by means of some cross-beams and a couple of stout ropes and pulleys, worked by two men, the passengers were lifted up and let down in a jig-jog way that gave unbounded satisfaction to the customers. 1888, Edmund Finn, The Chronicles of Early Melbourne, Chapter 53:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
jigjog		alternative	lexicographic
more jig-jog	Degree=Cmp		lexicographic
most jig-jog	Degree=Sup		lexicographic

jig-jog en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A jolting motion
2. a jogging pace.
   • They must not go with a long launching pace, or the poor woman would roll like a boat in a rough sea. A quiet, regular, jig-jog, never lifting the feet high from the ground, was the pace required—just the next degree in swiftness to a walk—a pace into which horses naturally fall, and which, when their spirits are not too high, they seem to prefer to any other. 1860, Sarah Stickney Ellis, “The Pillion”, in Once a Week:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
jigjog		alternative	lexicographic

jig-jog en · VERB

Meanings

1. To run at a jogging pace

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
jig-jogs	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic
jigjog		alternative	lexicographic
jig-jogged	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
jig-jogged	Tense=Past		lexicographic
jig-jogging	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic