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発音

• IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɪɡəl/
• 韻: -ɪɡəl

名詞

jiggle (plural jiggles)

1. A relatively weak shaking movement.
   • Give the key a jiggle and see if it opens.
2. Titillating depictions of scantily-clad female bodies in motion, especially in action media genres.

   Hypernym: T&A

   • 1978, Year Book Covering the Year ...:

     […] Rollergirls, a situation comedy about an all-female roller derby team with a lecher- ous male manager. As the women, dressed in sports hot-pants, crashed into each other in the playing arena, the opportunities for jiggle were endless.

   • 2013 May 11, Cary O’Dell, June Cleaver Was a Feminist!: Reconsidering the Female Characters of Early Television, McFarland, →ISBN, page 148:

     For all the talk that the show's success was based on "jiggle,” [Charlie's] Angels had a huge female viewership.

   • 2020 August 14, John T Caldwell, Televisuality: Style, Crisis, and Authority in American Television, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 88:

     If freeway chases, fetishized tools, and weapons were not enough, wet T-shirt jiggle scenes with buxom starlets a la Charlie's Angels, could be pulled in front of the camera as filler, even in hour-long police dramas.

動詞

jiggle (third-person singular simple present jiggles, present participle jiggling, simple past and past participle jiggled)

1. (transitive) To shake something gently; to rattle or wiggle.
   • Jiggle the handle and see if the water stops.
   • 1980 February 16, Nancy Walker, “You Can Go Home Again”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 29, page 12:

     And I hope we jiggled a few of his convictions.

   • 1993, Ronald L. Smith, “Limericks”, in Sexual Humor‎ (Poetry), New York: S.P.I. Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 38:

     A hooker named Suzibelle Hickins // Found London and Cambridge fine pickin’s // She would jiggle her titties // As the tail of two cities, // That dirty and hot little Dickens!

2. (intransitive) To shake, rattle, or wiggle.
   • The jelly jiggled in the bowl for a few moments after it was set down.

派生語