jiggle

noun, verb — 4 senses

jiggle

noun

/ˈd͡ʒɪɡəl/

Etymology From jig + -le (frequentative suffix).

1

A relatively weak shaking movement.

  • Give the key a jiggle and see if it opens.
2

Titillating depictions of scantily-clad female bodies in motion, especially in action media genres.

  • […]Rollergirls, a situation comedy about an all-female roller derby team with a lecher- ous male manager. As the women, dressed in sports hot-pants, crashed into each other in the playing arena, the opportunities for jiggle were endless.1978, Year Book Covering the Year ...:
  • For all the talk that the show's success was based on "jiggle,” [Charlie's] Angels had a huge female viewership.2013 May 11, Cary O’Dell, June Cleaver Was a Feminist!: Reconsidering the Female Characters of Early Television, McFarland, →ISBN, page 148:
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  • If freeway chases, fetishized tools, and weapons were not enough, wet T-shirt jiggle scenes with buxom starlets a la Charlie's Angels, could be pulled in front of the camera as filler, even in hour-long police dramas.2020 August 14, John T Caldwell, Televisuality: Style, Crisis, and Authority in American Television, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 88:

jiggle

verb

Etymology From jig + -le (frequentative suffix).

1

To shake something gently; to rattle or wiggle.

  • Jiggle the handle and see if the water stops.
  • A hooker named Suzibelle Hickins // Found London and Cambridge fine pickin’s // She would jiggle her titties // As the tail of two cities, // That dirty and hot little Dickens!1993, Ronald L. Smith, “Limericks”, in Sexual Humor (Poetry), New York: S.P.I. Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 38:
2

To shake, rattle, or wiggle.

  • The jelly jiggled in the bowl for a few moments after it was set down.
Derived terms
jiggle key, jiggle mode, jiggle physics, jiggler, jigglesome, jiggle television, jigglingly, jiggly, rejiggle

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