English

jighead

From jig + head.

A compound of jig + head

Old French gigue ‘a fiddle’

Middle English gyge ‘fiddle’

English jig

Proto-Indo-European *kap- ‘head’

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Proto-Germanic *haubudą ‘head’

Proto-West Germanic *haubud

Old English hēafod ‘head’

Middle English heed ‘head’

English head

Today it means

noun A fishhook with an incorporated moulded weighting mass of metal or plastic below the eye.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.