jig sb. (3 cf. Cotgr. s.v. ‘Farce,’ ‘the Iyg at the end of an Enterlude, wherein some pretie knauerie is acted’）
1.
lively, rapid
kind of dance
Ado II. i. 79
“hot and hasty, like a
Scotch jig,”
Tw.N. I. iii. 140
“My very walk should be
a jig”
; music for such a dance, rapid, lively
dance-tune
LLL. IV. iii. 168
“to tune a jig.”
2.
(?) lively, jocular
ballad Sonn. Music iii. 9
[Pilgr. 253].
3.
lively, comic, or
farcical performance given at the end or in an
interval of a play Ham. II. ii.
530 [522] “he's for a jig or a tale of
bawdry”; so “jigmaker”
III. ii. 133.
