gigue
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Etymology edit
From French gigue. Doublet of jig.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gigue (plural gigues)
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Etymology edit
From Old French gige, gigue (“a fiddle, kind of dance”), from Frankish *gīge (“dance, fiddle”), from Proto-Germanic *gīganą (“to move, wish, desire”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeyǵʰ-, *gʰeygʰ- (“to yawn, gape, long for, desire”). More at gig, geg, jig.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gigue f (plural gigues)
- (music) string instrument, roughly in the form of a mandoline (c. 1120–50)
- (dance) lively and gay dance originary from the British Isles, gigue, jig
- (music) musical melody, to be danced in the way of a gigue
- (informal) long leg, tall and skinny girl, haunch of some animals especially venison (19th century)
- (colloquial) disorderly way of dancing (danser la gigue), twerk of the hips (gigue des fesses; early 20th century)
- a small boat, gig
- (telecommunications) jitter
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Descendants edit
- → English: gigue
Further reading edit
- “gigue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.