jig-jig

• jig jig

Probably onomatopoeic. Compare jig and jiggle.

jig-jig (uncountable)

1. (chiefly pidgin English) sexual intercourse, sex
   • 1948, Eugene B. Vest, “Native Words Learned by American Soldiers in India and Burma in World War II”, in American Speech, volume 23, number 3/4:

     JIG JIG. Intercourse. American soldiers heard it as zig zig in France and also in New Caledonia and elsewhere in the South Pacific.

   • 1948, Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter:

     ‘Pretty girl jig jig by-and-by.’

   • 1969, Graham Greene, Travels with My Aunt:

     ‘No jig-jig here,’ Wordsworth said. ‘If you wan jig-jig you take her to hotel.’

   • 1996, Albert Meltzer, I Couldn't Paint Golden Angels:

     I infuriated them when they came to me by answering only the British officer and acting as if the French one could only understand music-hall pidgin-Franglais (he spoke English perfectly well). “Nice country, non? Mini-skirts, mademoiselles, oo la la. It rains always but plenty jig-jig, wee-wee — you wanna go?”

   • 1998, David Marion Wilkinson, The Empty Quarter:

     “Only twenty-eight days more, I go to fucking India. Plenty jig-jig. No more whanimidi!” Abdullah gestured with his hands to signify masturbation. “Jig-jig” clearly meant the preferred alternative.

   • 2002, Jan Merlin, Ainoko:

     “Ah! you want jig-jig?”
     “No, goddamnit, I don’t want no fucking jig-jig,” Jordan replied impatiently. The boy’s vocabulary in English was limited to ‘You buy, hubba-hubba, booze-o,’ and a few other important phrases leading to a multiplication of numbers equaling yen.

• horizontal mambo, humpa humpa, rumpy-pumpy, snu snu; see also Thesaurus:copulation

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

1. to have sex
   • 1998, David Marion Wilkinson, The Empty Quarter:

     Doc jig-jig pretty much with anyone interested in jig-jigging him.

• bang, do it, get it on; see also Thesaurus:copulate