different between jagger vs agger

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?æ??(?)/
• Rhymes: -æ??(?)

Etymology 1

jag +? -er

Noun

jagger (plural jaggers)

1. carrier, carter
2. peddler, hawker
   • 1821, Sir Walter Scott, The Pirate

     The jagger, with those green, goggling, and gain-descrying kind of optics, which we have already described, continued gazing for an instant after the customer, who treated his wares with such irreverence.

3. A jagging iron used for crimping pies, cakes, etc.
4. A toothed chisel.
5. jag
   • 2011, Larry Enright, A King in a Court of Fools

     I don't know if you've ever gotten close to a jagger bush, but those stickers can be pretty mean.

   • 2011- , Chris Preksta, Curt Wootton, Pittsburgh Dad: Everything Your Dad Has Said to You

     How about we play The Store is a jagger bush and you don't touch nothing.

Etymology 2

Blend of jaguar +? tiger

Noun

jagger (plural jaggers)

1. The offspring of a male jaguar and a female tiger.

English

Etymology

From Middle English agger (“heap; pile”), from Latin agger (“rubble; mound; rampart”), from ad- + gerere (“to carry, to bring”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æd??(r)

Noun

agger (plural aggers)

1. A high tide in which the water rises to a given level, recedes, and then rises again.
2. A low tide in which the water recedes to a given level, rises, and then recedes again.
3. (historical) In ancient Roman construction, an earthwork; a mound or raised work.

Related terms

• agger nasi

Anagrams

• Gager, Garge, Grega, eggar, gager, regag

Latin

Etymology

If not directly from agger?, from its root.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a?.?er/, [?ä???r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ad.d??er/, [??d????r]

Noun

agger m (genitive aggeris); third declension

1. rampart, bulwark (or the materials used to make one)
2. causeway, pier, dam, dyke

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• agger?

Descendants

• Italian: argine
• Piedmontese: àrgin
• Spanish: arce, arcén
• Venetian: àrzare, àrxen

References

• agger in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• agger in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• agger in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• agger in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• agger in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) , Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
• agger in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin