Enter The Dragon

[Eric Nielsen]

I think they are punning around; Both OED 1. and 2. are meant. I don't have
any specific statement from them to verify that, but there is the proximity
of "negro" to "jig" in the title. They are a playful bunch.
Eric
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> >>  is on the local tube. A cop says to the token black,
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> >>  "Where you goin' _jig_?"
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> >>  I've never noticed that before, despite my having seen the movie times
> >>  a beaucoup (cooler than "beaucop times" in StL, back in the day). A
> >>  clip of the rare-in-the-wild, IME, "jigaboo," no doubt.
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> >>  --
> >>  -Wilson
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> >Here's a group of talented young people--with a healthy sense of humor
> >(thumb on nose, I suppose). Check out the title of their album:
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> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbcqGjeNz7w
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> I love their music, but is there any reason to believe the "jig" here
> is anything other than the musical term for a lively kind of dance
> (the OED's JIG 1, with cites to the 16th c., of unknown origin),
> rather than JIG 2, 'a black person (depreciative and offensive)',
> which then blends with "bugaboo" to form "jigaboo"?  One of the
> musicians mentions the name of the album toward the end of the clip
> without clarifying the intended reference, but the JIG 2 meaning
> seems unlikely in this context.
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> LH
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