Jiggy

Etymology
jig + -y

Adjective

 * 1) Of or pertaining to a jig.
 * 2)  Being crazy.
 * He's gone completely jiggy.
 * 1)  Being jittery, fidgety, restless, excited.
 * 2) * 1989. Radford & Crowley, Drug Agent:
 * If I was too jiggy to hold the syringe, he'd shoot me up.
 * 1)  Being extravagant, wonderful, excellent, enjoyable, exciting, stylish, cool, successful.
 * 2) * Get yourself some jiggy gear.
 * 3)  Having fun, enjoying oneself totally; losing one's inhibitions, especially when dancing or performing to music.
 * 4) * 1997-1998. Will Smith, Get Jiggy With It. (song)
 * Just can't sit
 * Gotta get jiggy wit it
 * 1) * 1998. L.A. Times:
 * Latin groovers get jiggy at the mercury-hot Conga Room on Wilshire Boulevard.
 * 1) * 1998. People Magazine:
 * ''When Ally McBeal's writers decided to have ...Calista Flockhart get jiggy with an imaginary dancing baby..."

Related terms

 * get down (with it).

Derived terms

 * jiggy-jiggy
 * get jiggy

Quotations

 * [1916], 2004, Annie Hamilton Donnell, Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings
 * “He likes jiggy tunes best—please sing him jiggy tunes.”
 * [1965] 1997, Alan Lomax, Jean Ritchie, Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians
 * We have always known this “little foolish thing”—Dad’s description of “The Swapping Song.” Very often it is used for baby-bouncing, because of its jiggy rhythm.
 * 2000, Charles Wolfe, in “Bluegrass Touches—An Interview with Bill Monroe,” in The Bill Monroe Reader, Tom Ewing ed.
 * Wolfe: When you were growing up in Kentucky, did they use the long bow or this so-called jiggy bow?
 * Bill: Well, that jiggy bow didn’t come out till the Georgia shuffle, and that’s where a lot of that started from. Of course, a lot of fiddlers played a little jiggy bow, but most of them had a little shuffle.