v. colloq. Also 9 jiggit. [dim. of JIG v.] intr. To move about with a jerky or shaky motion; to jig; to hop or skip about; to shake up and down; to fidget. Hence Jiggeting vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1687. Mrs. Behn, Luckey Chance, II. ii. 26. Come my Lady Fulbank, the Night grows old upon our hands, to dancing, to jiggeting.
1709. T. Baker, Female Tatler, No. 15. She … has a languishing Eye, a delicious soft Hand, and two pretty jiggetting Feet.
1818. Miss Mitford, in L’Estrange, Life (1870), II. 35. He is … always jiggeting about from one great house to another.
1862. Miss Yonge, C’tess Kate, iv. 55. There’s Aunt Barbara coming down the lane in the baker’s jiggetting cart!
1898. R. Kipling, Fleet in Being, i. 4. At eight knots you heard the vicious little twin-screws jigitting like restive horses; at seventeen they pegged away into the sea like a pair of short-gaited trotting ponies on a hard road.
