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Is jig a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word jig is a Scrabble US word. The word jig is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is jig a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word jig is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

J8I1G2

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Yes. The word jig is a Words With Friends word. The word jig is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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3-letter words (1 found)

JIG,

2-letter words (1 found)

GI,

You can make 2 words from jig according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 3 letters words made out of jig

jig ijg jgi gji igj gij

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Definitions and meaning of jig

jig

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: jĭg; IPA(key): /d͡ʒɪɡ/
  • Homophone: gig (one pronunciation)
  • Rhymes: -ɪɡ

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

jig (plural jigs)

  1. (music) A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
  2. (traditional Irish music and dance) A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.
  3. (traditional English Morris dance) A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.
  4. (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
  5. A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.
  6. (mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
  7. (obsolete) A light, humorous piece of writing, especially in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.
  8. (obsolete) A trick; a prank.
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Verb

jig (third-person singular simple present jigs, present participle jigging, simple past and past participle jigged)

  1. To move briskly, especially as a dance.
  2. To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.
  3. (fishing) To fish with a jig.
  4. To sing to the tune of a jig.
  5. To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
  6. (mining) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.
  7. To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
  8. To skip school or be truant (Australia, Canadian Maritimes)
Derived terms
  • jig up
  • rejig
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Etymology 2

Probably a clipping of jigaboo, of uncertain origin, perhaps an African/Bantu word. Alternatively, jigaboo may be derived from jig (“dance”).

Noun

jig (plural jigs)

  1. (US, offensive, slang, dated, ethnic slur) A black person.

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Romanian

Noun

jig n (plural jiguri)

  1. Obsolete form of jeg.

Declension

References

  • jig in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

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