Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To move or rock lightly up and down or to and fro in an unsteady, jerky manner.
- intransitive verb To cause to jiggle.
- noun A jiggling motion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To practise affected or awkward motions; wriggle.
- To jerk or joggle slightly.
- noun A slight joggle; a quick jiggling movement.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To wriggle or frisk about; to move awkwardly; to shake up and down.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
weak ,shaking movement . - verb transitive To
shake something gently; torattle orwiggle . - verb intransitive To
shake ,rattle , orwiggle .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb move to and fro
- noun a slight irregular shaking motion
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But that's an argument as old as the term "jiggle TV" harking back to the original "Charlie's Angels" -- which, 35 years later, returns to ABC in an updated but no less jiggly version starring tough-but-tantalizing Annie Ilonzeh, Minka Kelly and Rachael Taylor.
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But that's an argument as old as the term "jiggle TV" harking back to the original "Charlie's Angels" -- which, 35 years later, returns to ABC in an updated but no less jiggly version starring tough-but-tantalizing Annie Ilonzeh, Minka Kelly and Rachael Taylor.
unknown title 2011
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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 2007
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Mad Men knockoffs that Maureen Dowd describes as "jiggle TV," which is simply inaccurate.
Slate Magazine Troy Patterson 2011
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If I really wanted this kind of jiggle action I would go to the ballet.
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I've also heard him use, I believe, Gigabyte to begin like the word "jiggle", not as I would say it, like "giggle".
On IT regional dialects DC 2008
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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.
The Essential Garry Marshall Bomb Jaime J. Weinman 2008
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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.
The one you might have saved Arbogast 2008
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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.
Archive 2008-10-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2008
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I remember my father openning up the back of the TV set periodically to "jiggle" the tubes to get the set to work.
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