
jiggle | jiggle: v. 1 jog, joggle, jig, shake, agitate, wiggle, wriggle, jerk: It''s odd to see grown people jiggling about on the dance floor like that. Jiggle the key up and down - maybe then you can turn it. --n. 2 jog, joggle, jig, shake, wiggle, jerk: I gave the line a few jiggles, hoping to attract a fish.
jilt | jilt: v. throw over, reject, dismiss, drop, discard, desert, break (up) with, forsake, abandon, Colloq ditch, dump, brush off or give (someone) the brush-off, Chiefly US and Canadian give (someone) his or her walking papers: Angela met Tony and promptly jilted Mike.
jingle | jingle: v. 1 tinkle, ring, tintinnabulate, clink, chink, chime: She wore a dozen bracelets, which jingled when she walked. --n. 2 tinkle, tinkling, ring, ringing, tintinnabulation, clink, clinking, chink, chinking, chime, chiming: I like to feel the jingle of change in my pocket. 3 tune, ditty, melody, song, rhyme, verse, doggerel: The only thing he ever wrote was a jingle for a dog-food commercial.
jingoism | jingoism: n. chauvinism, flag-waving, superpatriotism, nationalism; hawkishness, warmongering, belligerence, bellicosity: ''Might makes right'' is a basic tenet of jingoism.
jinx | jinx: n. 1 (evil) spell, curse, evil eye, malediction, voodoo, US and Canadian hex: I felt I had lost at roulette because she had put a jinx on me. 2 nemesis, Jonah: If we don''t throw that jinx overboard we shall all die. --v. 3 curse, bewitch, damn, doom, sabotage, condemn, US and Canadian hex: My career was jinxed from the start.
jitters | jitters: n.pl. shakes, fidgets, nerves, uneasiness, queasiness, nervousness, skittishness, restlessness, apprehension, apprehensiveness, Slang heebie-jeebies, willies US whim-whams: He always gets an attack of the jitters before an exam.
