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Jigging around

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1598, OED Evaluation: Obsolete.

To sing or play as a jig, or in the style of a jig

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Interviewer: What were you doing? Speaker: Jigging around at everything. Some day hashing, some day helping the man with the flour, some days maybe with the boy with a load of flour. Just do whatever had to be done.
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Liv-- Lived there um, say, four years then separated ah and there 's some jigging around in there, but essentially came here in nineteen-sixty-seven.
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