a. [f. JIG sb. + -ISH1.]
1. Inclined to jigging, dancing or frolicking; of light or frivolous disposition (quot. 1634).
1634–40. Habington, Castara, I. (Arb.), 16. She is never sad, and yet not jiggish.
1815. J. Scott, Vis. Paris, iii. (ed. 2), 39. Crowds of both sexes … gratifying the jiggish propensities of their minds by the sound of fiddles.
2. Resembling or of the nature of a jig or light dance; suitable for a jig.
1709. Addison, Tatler, No. 157, ¶ 7. That Musical Instrument which is commonly known by the Name of a Kit, that is more jiggish than the Fiddle it self.
1712. Steele, Spect., No. 276, ¶ 3. This Man makes on the Violin a certain jiggish Noise to which I dance.
1756. Cowper, in Connoisseur, No. 134, ¶ 5. The tunes themselves have also been new-set to jiggish measures.
1789. T. Twining, Aristotle’s Treat. Poetry (1812), I. 249, note. ‘A jiggish measure,’ would be weak, to the force of the original [Greek].
