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jiggle en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈd͡ʒɪɡəl/

Etymology

From jig + -le (frequentative suffix).

Meanings

  1. A relatively weak shaking movement; the condition or state of weakly shaking.
    • Give the key a jiggle and see if it opens.
  2. Titillating depictions of scantily-clad female bodies in motion, especially in action media genres.
    • If freeway chases, fetishized tools, and weapons were not enough, wet T-shirt jiggle scenes with buxom starlets a la Charlie's Angels, could be pulled in front of the camera as filler, even in hour-long police dramas. 2020 August 14, John T Caldwell, Televisuality: Style, Crisis, and Authority in American Television, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 88:
    • […]Rollergirls, a situation comedy about an all-female roller derby team with a lecher- ous male manager. As the women, dressed in sports hot-pants, crashed into each other in the playing arena, the opportunities for jiggle were endless. 1978, Year Book Covering the Year ...:
    • For all the talk that the show's success was based on "jiggle,” [Charlie's] Angels had a huge female viewership. 2013 May 11, Cary O’Dell, June Cleaver Was a Feminist!: Reconsidering the Female Characters of Early Television, McFarland, →ISBN, page 148:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
jiggles Number=Plur lexicographic

Hypernyms

T&A

jiggle en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈd͡ʒɪɡəl/

Etymology

From jig + -le (frequentative suffix).

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To shake something gently; to rattle or wiggle.
    • Jiggle the handle and see if the water stops.
    • A hooker named Suzibelle Hickins // Found London and Cambridge fine pickin’s // She would jiggle her titties // As the tail of two cities, // That dirty and hot little Dickens! 1993, Ronald L. Smith, “Limericks”, in Sexual Humor (Poetry), New York: S.P.I. Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 38:
    • And I hope we jiggled a few of his convictions. 1980 February 16, Nancy Walker, “You Can Go Home Again”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 29, page 12:
  2. (intransitive) To shake, rattle, or wiggle.
    • The jelly jiggled in the bowl for a few moments after it was set down.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
jiggles Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
jiggled Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
jiggled Tense=Past lexicographic
jiggling Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Deriveds

jigglesome · rejiggle · jiggler · jiggle key · jiggly · jiggle television · jiggle mode · jiggle physics · jigglingly

Translations (21)

fr ballotter (To shake, rattle, or wiggle) · ka რწევა (To shake something gently) · fi hytkyttää (To shake something gently) · fi heiluttaa (To shake something gently) · izh hytissä (To shake, rattle, or wiggle) · ka რხევა (To shake something gently) · ka ქანაობა (To shake something gently) · pt agitar (To shake, rattle, or wiggle) · ru трясти́ (To shake something gently) · fi hytkyä (To shake, rattle, or wiggle) · ka ნჯღრევა (To shake, rattle, or wiggle) · ru трясти́сь (To shake, rattle, or wiggle) · ja 揺さ振る (To shake something gently) · fi hyllyä (To shake, rattle, or wiggle) · ka ჯანჯღარი (To shake, rattle, or wiggle) · bg полюлявам се (To shake, rattle, or wiggle) · fi heilua (To shake, rattle, or wiggle) · fr remuer légèrement (To shake something gently) · fi hölskyä (To shake, rattle, or wiggle) · bg треса се (To shake, rattle, or wiggle) · mi hīkaikai (To shake, rattle, or wiggle)