Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gigging

/ˈɡɪɡɪŋ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.25 in modern English

Syllables: gig-ging
IPA: /ˈɡɪɡɪŋ/

11

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

gerund of gig (in various senses).

Uncountable

noun

gerund of gig (in various senses).

Uncountable

noun

gerund of gig (in various senses).

Uncountable

verb

present participle and gerund of gig

Example Sentences

"A community of chimpanzees living on the edges of the savanna in Senegal has learned to fashion and use spears, which they sharpen with their teeth. These are chimps we've been observing for two hundred years; they never used spears. Now they've begun spiking little bush babies with them. The bush babies hide in hollow trees. The chimps do a sort of frog-gigging number on them and pull them out like fondue."

Etymology

Etymology tree English gig Middle English -ynge English -ing English gigging From gig + -ing.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈɡɪɡɪŋ/
British English: /ˈɡɪɡɪŋ/

Usage

Uncountable

Rhymes With

digging rigging frigging reneging running rigging standing rigging jigging pigging swigging wigging rejigging

Questions

How do you pronounce gigging?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈɡɪɡɪŋ/.
What does gigging mean?: gerund of gig (in various senses).
Where does gigging come from?: Etymology tree English gig Middle English -ynge English -ing English gigging From gig + -ing.

How to pronounce gigging

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