jig

1. 1.

   music in three-four time for dancing a jig

   Synonymsgigue

   Broaderdance music
2. 2.

   a fisherman's lure with one or more hooks that is jerked up and down in the water

   Broaderfisherman's lure
3. 3.

   a device that holds a piece of machine work and guides the tools operating on it

   Broaderdevice
4. 4.

   any of various old rustic dances involving kicking and leaping

   Broaderfolk dancing

1. 1.

   dance a quick dance with leaping and kicking motions

   Broaderdance

Other forms of jig

plural

jigs·

past tense or participle

jigged

present participle

jigging

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about jig

What does jig mean?

jig means "music in three-four time for dancing a jig". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in jig?

jig has 1 syllable: jig. In IPA it is /ˈdʒɪɡ/.

What is another word for jig?

Close synonyms include gigue. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is jig a common word?

jig is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.