English

Adjective

jiggy ‎(comparative more jiggy, superlative most jiggy)

1. Resembling or suggesting a jig.

   a jiggy tune

2. (slang) Crazy.

   He's gone completely jiggy.

3. (slang) Jittery, fidgety, restless, excited.
   • 1989. Radford & Crowley, Drug Agent:

     If I was too jiggy to hold the syringe, he'd shoot me up.

4. (slang) Extravagant, wonderful, excellent, enjoyable, exciting, stylish, cool, successful.
   • Get yourself some jiggy gear.
5. (slang) Having fun, enjoying oneself totally; losing one's inhibitions, especially when dancing or performing to music.
   • 1997-1998. Will Smith, Get Jiggy With It. (song)

     Just can't sit

     Gotta get jiggy wit it

   • 1998. L.A. Times:

     Latin groovers get jiggy at the mercury-hot Conga Room on Wilshire Boulevard.

   • 1998. People Magazine:

     When Ally McBeal's writers decided to have ...Calista Flockhart get jiggy with an imaginary dancing baby..."

Derived terms

• jiggy-jiggy
• get jiggy

See also

• get down (with it)

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.