jig-a-jig n.
1. sexual intercourse, often found in pidgin slangs.
Shoemakers’ Holiday IV i: How merry? why our buttockes went iggy ioggy like a quagmyre. | ||
Dutch Curtezan V i: Your merry nuptials, and wanton Jiggajoggies. | ||
Eng. Moor I iii: Wee’l make the new bed cry Jiggy Joggy. | ||
Job for a Ioyner n.p.: Quoth John, rare tools I with me brought My Gimble in this kind bath wrought For many a Maid to me did sue To make their beds go Jigg a Jog goo. | ||
Sl. and Its Analogues. | ||
Ulysses 444: (The brass quoits of a bed are heard to jingle.) the quoits: Jigjag. Jigajiga. Jigjag. | ||
(con. WWI) Goodbye to All That (1960) 79: I take you to my sister. She very nice. very good jig-a-jig. | ||
Und. Speaks n.p.: Jig-jig, a lewd act. | ||
Augie March (1996) 184: You got plenty of jig-jig ahead of you before you settle down. | ||
Tourmaline 84: ‘They stopped breeding.’ ‘Ah,’ said Dave, ‘not enough jigjig.’. | ||
Picture Palace 27: ‘Dated her,’ I said. ‘You mean a little boom-boom?’ ‘Jig-jig,’ he said. | ||
Slow Boats to China (1983) 176: They all make jig-a-jig with Arabs for money. | ||
(con. WWII) Jack and Jamie Go to War 153: Hey mister! Wanna jig-jig? Fucki-fuck? | ||
🎵 on ...in Time [album] We honk for cookies, we knock it out / We mash the fat, we mess around / Jig-a-jig, rub-a-dub, dead shot, Donald Duck / You wanna feel my Bethlehem steel / Mary Poppins, TNT, Bristol City / I bite into your cats and kitties. | ‘Zeitgest’||
Guardian Rev. 11 Sept. 9: The particular word in question begins with f, has four letters, and describes an act of intimate sexual behaviour whose many synonyms include [...] jig-a-jig. |
2. attrib. use of sense 1.
Slow Boats to China (1983) 201: ‘You have jig-jig pictures?’ he asked eagerly. |
In compounds
a brothel.
White Dacoit 193: Oh, she been in prison. She madam of jig-a-jig joint. |