[f. JIG v. + -ING2.] That jigs, in various senses (see JIG v.); dancing jigs; moving jerkily; singing, playing or composing jigs; of the style of a jig (see JIG sb. 1–3).
1586. Marlowe, 1st Pt. Tamburl., Prol. Jigging veins of rhyming mother-wits.
1592. Chettle, Kind-Harts Dr. (1841), 16. Men brought vppe to an honest handicralt, of which the realme more need then iygging vanities.
1601. Shaks., Jul. C., IV. iii. 137. What should the Warres do with these Iigging Fooles?
1629. Davenant, Albovine, V. Dram. Wks. 1872, I. 94. Leave off your jigging motion when you mix Yourselves in a salute.
1839. Marryat, Diary Amer., Ser. I. I. 119. One of the leaders then burst out into a hymn to a jigging sort of tune.
1862. Thackeray, Four Georges, ii. 85. Never was such a brilliant, jigging, smirking Vanity Fair.
