jigtime
English edit
Noun edit
jigtime (uncountable)
- (dated, usually used in the phrase "in jigtime") A short period of time.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:Episode 12, The Cyclops
- The Englishman, whose right eye was nearly closed, took his corner where he was liberally drenched with water and when the bell went came on gamey and brimful of pluck, confident of knocking out the fistic Eblanite in jigtime.