Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To move or rock lightly up and down or to and fro in an unsteady, jerky manner: The gelatin jiggled on the plate.
- v. To cause to jiggle.
- n. A jiggling motion.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To practise affected or awkward motions; wriggle.
- To jerk or joggle slightly.
- n. A slight joggle; a quick jiggling movement.
Wiktionary
- n. a weak, shaking movement.
- v. To shake something gently; to rattle or wiggle.
- v. To shake, rattle, or wiggle.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To wriggle or frisk about; to move awkwardly; to shake up and down.
WordNet 3.0
- v. move to and fro
- n. a slight irregular shaking motion
Etymologies
- Frequentative of jig1.
Examples
“Barbi Benton's been a Playboy icon (but surprisingly, no centerfolds), a regular on Hee Haw (I don't think there's been one Hee Haw article on this whole site), and part of an ABC show called Sugar Time, for which one critic coined the phrase jiggle tv.”
YesButNoButYes: Where Are They Now - Poster Girls of the 70's
“Mad Men knockoffs that Maureen Dowd describes as "jiggle TV," which is simply inaccurate.”
“If I really wanted this kind of jiggle action I would go to the ballet.”
“I only wish I could have thought of a better word than "jiggle," which has an unfortunate connotation and of course rhymes with "giggle," which undercuts the sincerity of my post, f'shiggle.”
“Over at mon autre blog I have an episode of Blansky's Beauties, the bomb Garry Marshall created for ABC in 1977 to get in on the "jiggle" craze, and one of the worst shows ever created by someone who had two top-ten hits on the air granted, there aren't many people who have had two top-ten hits at once.”
“I've also heard him use, I believe, Gigabyte to begin like the word "jiggle", not as I would say it, like "giggle".”
“I remember my father openning up the back of the TV set periodically to "jiggle" the tubes to get the set to work.”
“However, before he could get near enough to her to "jiggle" her arm, and make her drop the pan, Dinah came in.”
“This time he jumped backward, and flung his arms about to illustrate the "jiggle;" and -- and he knocked over the peacock glass vase, and it fell on the marble hearth, and broke into fifty pieces.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘jiggle’.
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The weird, the wonderful and the plain hilarious
Loved for their ingenuity, an exact description, or simply for the pure joy of it.
acidulous, aprosdoketon, higgledy-piggledy, lexicographical, ninja, audacious, somnabulist, shivaree, amorphous, quidnunc, glib, melancholy and 353 more...
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CCle
all those wonderful Britsy words that end with a double consonant followed by 'le'
doddle, bobble, dibble, whiffle, waffle, diddle, piddle, jiggle, straggle, boggle, fiddle, skeedaddle and 122 more...
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The Pain of Texting
Words that are a pain in the ass to type in on a numerical keypad on a cell phone because they have consecutive letters that share the same button:
2 - ABC
3 - DEF
4 - GHI...defcon, hi, no, attitude, xylophone, on, monday, monkey, mono, dig, back, babble and 212 more...
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Cute
My boyfriend and I started this list my Junior or Senior year of High school. It hasn't been added to in a while. It was a list of words that we thought sounded universally cute or had universal as...
cupcake, doilee, mitten, kitten, squiggle, button, cheek, papoose, pupa, sleep, cookie, treat and 45 more...
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[Open] Frequentative
“A verb which denotes the frequent occurrence or repetition of an action, as . . . waggle from wag.” — Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia.
Other examples include bobble (bob), bustle (b...dartle, stutter, agitate, dabble, waggle, aid, argue, daunt, expect, excite, espouse, dictate and 77 more...
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