Green’s Dictionary of Slang

to have sexual intercourse; thus jigging.

1629		W. Davenant Albovine I i: She is none o’th’ French nursery that practise The sublime frisk. None o’ your jigging girls, That perch paraquitoes on their fists, And ride to the Court like Venus’ falconers.
1658		Mennis & Smith ‘Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard’ Wit Restor’d (1817) 309: Quoth he, I thank yee faire lady This kindnes thou showest to me, But whether it be to my weal or woe This night I will lig [jig] with thee.
1671		‘L.B.’ New Academy of Complements 149: Then he laid this fair maiden thereupon, [...] He knockt in a pin where a pin should be, / Which made the bed to go jig a joggee.
1675		C. Cotton Scoffer Scoff’d (1765) 238: Now as they thus, with pleasing Labor, / Did jump and jig to Pipe and Tabor.
1709		‘Phoebe Crackenthorpe’ Female Tatler (1992) (10) 19: He [...] gave ’em nick-names of Sue Stately, Jenny Jigg-it, Bess Bob-tail.
1725		View of London & Westminster (2nd part) 46: [in a list of prostitutes] Miss Jigtail, a Waterman’s Daughter [Is Visited] By a Colonel of the Army.
1772		Bridges Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 194: Come here, says he, you simple lass; / In jigging-matches you may shine.
1793		J.B. Moreton West India Customs and Manners 157: Tajo, tao, tajo! my mackey massa! [...] I’ll please my mackey massa! I’ll jig to mackey massa! / I’ll sweet my mackey massa!
1801		J. Churchill ‘Humble Petition’ in Poems II 138: For forty long years, has she jigg’d it about, / Nor, once late or early, been known to give out.
1830		Egan Finish to the Adventures of Tom and Jerry (1889) 119: Squire —’s vife had like to have been cotched jigging a bit with her footman.