different between pigging vs jigging

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p????/
• Rhymes: -????

Etymology 1

Adjective

pigging

1. Damned (used as a mild intensive).

   I can't get this pigging computer to work.

Synonyms

• blasted, blooming, confounded, damned

Verb

pigging

1. present participle of pig

Noun

pigging (plural piggings)

1. (engineering) The use of a pig (the device) to clean a pipeline.
   • 1955, American Gas Association, Proceedings (volume 37, page 1083)

     The main reason for the high efficiencies obtained over previous piggings can be attributed to the vented swabs with the check valve.

Etymology 2

Noun

pigging (plural piggings)

1. Alternative form of piggin
   • 1823, Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia

     He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf — our crug — moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?????/

Verb

jigging

1. present participle of jig

Noun

jigging (plural jiggings)

1. The act of dancing a jig.
   • 1837, Memoirs of Mirabeau (in The Westminster Review, volume 26, page 436)

     There are to whom the gods, in their bounty, give glory: but far oftener it is given in wrath, as a curse and a poison; disturbing the whole inner health and industry of the man; leading onward through dizzy staggerings and tarantula jiggings […]

2. (mining) The act of using a jig; the act of separating ore with a jigger, or wire-bottomed sieve, which is moved up and down in water.