different between jig vs hornpipe

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: j?g; IPA^(key): /d????/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

An assimilated form of earlier gig, from Middle English gigge, from Old French gige, gigue (“a fiddle, kind of dance”), from Frankish *g?ge (“dance, fiddle”), from Proto-Germanic *g?gan? (“to move, wish, desire”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?ey??-, *g?eyg?- (“to yawn, gape, long for, desire”).

Cognate with Middle Dutch ghighe (“fiddle”), German Geige (“fiddle, violin”), Danish gige (“fiddle”), Icelandic gígja (“fiddle”). More at gig, geg.

Noun

jig (plural jigs)

1. (music) A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
2. (traditional Irish music and dance) A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.
3. (traditional English Morris dancing) A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.
4. (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
5. A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.

6. (mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
7. (obsolete) A light, humorous piece of writing, especially in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.
8. (obsolete) A trick; a prank.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

jig (third-person singular simple present jigs, present participle jigging, simple past and past participle jigged)

1. To move briskly, especially as a dance.

2. To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.
3. (fishing) To fish with a jig.
4. To sing to the tune of a jig.
5. To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.

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6. (mining) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.
7. To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.

Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping of jigaboo, of uncertain origin, perhaps an African/Bantu word. Alternatively, jigaboo is derived from jig (“dance”).

Noun

jig (plural jigs)

1. (US, offensive, slang, dated, ethnic slur) A black person.

References

English

Etymology

From Middle English hornpipe, hornpype, hornepipe, equivalent to horn +? pipe; so called because the bell at the open end was sometimes made of horn.

Noun

hornpipe (plural hornpipes)

1. (music) A musical instrument consisting of a wooden pipe, with holes at intervals.
2. A solo dance commonly associated with seamen, involving kicking of the legs, with the arms mostly crossed.
3. A hard-shoe solo dance commonly performed in Irish stepdance, usually danced in 2/4 time.
4. Music played to the hornpipe dance

Derived terms

• hornpiper, hornpipist

Verb

hornpipe (third-person singular simple present hornpipes, present participle hornpiping, simple past and past participle hornpiped)

1. (intransitive) To dance the hornpipe.

Anagrams

• porphine

Middle English

Noun

hornpipe

1. Alternative form of hornepipe