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jigger
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?d????/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?d????/
- Rhymes: -???(?)
Etymology 1
From jig +? -er (agent suffix).
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary suggests a possible link to Old High German g?ga (“fiddle”).
Noun
jigger (plural jiggers)
- (US) A double-ended vessel, generally of stainless steel or other metal, one end of which typically measures 1 ½ fluid ounces, the other typically 1 fluid ounce.
- 2000, Robert B. Hess, drinkboy.com:
- A good jigger will have a well formed lip that will pour a clean stream into the cocktail shaker or glass.
- 2000, Robert B. Hess, drinkboy.com:
- (US) A measure of 1 ½ fluid ounces of liquor.
- (US, slang) A drink of whisky.
- (mining) The sieve used in sorting or separating ore.
- (mining) One who jigs; a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging.
- (pottery) A horizontal lathe used in producing flatware.
- 2004, thepotteries.org, "Jiggering":
- Hand jiggers consisted of two iron frames with a spindle in each - the driving spindle with its iron belt pulley approximately 20 inches in diameter and the driven spindle with a small wooden pulley.
- 2004, thepotteries.org, "Jiggering":
- (textiles) A device used in the dyeing of cloth.
- A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather.
- (Britain, slang, dated) A bicycle.
- 1932, Frank Richards, "The Complete Outsider", The Magnet:
- He made the discovery that the bikestand was vacant and the machine gone. "Where the thump's my jigger?" he exclaimed.
- 1932, Frank Richards, "The Complete Outsider", The Magnet:
- (golf, dated) A golf club used to play low flying shots to the putting green from short distances.
- A warehouse crane.
- (nautical) A light tackle, consisting of a double and single block and the fall, used for various purposes, as to increase the purchase on a topsail sheet in hauling it home; the watch tackle.
- (nautical) A jiggermast.
- (nautical, New England) A small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl.
- (fishing) A device used by fishermen to set their nets under the ice of frozen lakes.
- (archaic) One who dances jigs; an odd-looking person.
- (New Zealand) A short board or plank inserted into a tree for a person to stand on while cutting off higher branches.
- (US) A placeholder name for any small mechanical device.
- 1915, Printers' Ink, page 119:
- “an air-brush is a big thing-a-ma-bob or whatcha-callit, full of gas, and when you turn on a little jigger, it causes compressed air to squeeze out, which, in turn, going through a needle—” “That wasn't part of the contract, Mr. Jones,” […]
- 1915, Printers' Ink, page 119:
- (rail transport, New Zealand) A railway jigger, a small motorized or human powered vehicle used by railway workers to traverse railway tracks.
- The bridge or rest for the cue in billiards.
- (horse racing) An illicit electric shock device used to urge on a horse during a race.
- (archaic) A streetcar drawn by a single horse.
- (archaic) A kind of early electric cash register.
Synonyms
- (pottery lathe): jolley
- (nautical mast): jiggermast
- (measure of liquor): pony
- (placeholder name): thingamajig; doojigger; see also Thesaurus:thingy
- (rail vehicle): handcar; speeder
Translations
Verb
jigger (third-person singular simple present jiggers, present participle jiggering, simple past and past participle jiggered)
- To alter or adjust, particularly in ways not originally intended.
- You'll have to jigger it from the original specifications to get it to work.
- (pottery) To use a jigger.
- To move, send, or drive with a jerk; to jerk; also, to drive or send over with a jerk, as a golf ball.
- 1899, Carlyle Smith, "The Secret of Golf", Harper's Magazine:
- He could jigger the ball o'er a steeple tall as most men would jigger a cop.
- 1899, Carlyle Smith, "The Secret of Golf", Harper's Magazine:
Synonyms
- (use a pottery jigger): jolley
Derived terms
- jiggerer
- jiggered
See also
- fudge
- tweak
Etymology 2
Likely a corruption of chigoe. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary suggests a possible derivation from Wolof jiga (“insect”).
Noun
jigger (plural jiggers)
- A sandflea, Tunga penetrans, of the order Siphonaptera; chigoe.
- A larva of any of several mites in the family Trombiculidae; chigger, harvest mite.
Etymology 3
A slang term of unknown origin, originally meaning prison. Oxford English Dictionary suggests that its origin might be the same as Etymology 1, above.
Alternative forms
- gigger, gyger, jegger
Noun
jigger (plural jiggers)
- (slang, archaic) A prison; a jail cell.
- (dialect, Liverpudlian, dated) An alleyway separating the backs of two rows of houses.
- (slang, euphemistic) A penis.
- (slang, euphemistic) A vagina.
- (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) A door.
- (slang) An illegal distillery.
- (slang, Britain) A lock pick.
Synonyms
- (alleyway): See Thesaurus:alley
Derived terms
- jigger-dubber (“jailer”)
Verb
jigger (third-person singular simple present jiggers, present participle jiggering, simple past and past participle jiggered)
- (slang, obsolete) To imprison.
- 1870, J.T. Campion, "Billy in the Bowl", The Shamrock volume 8, page 107:
- ...offering to swear an alibi for the prisoner [...] to ensure an acquittal. Terms: £50 for value received. No pay if jiggered.
- 1870, J.T. Campion, "Billy in the Bowl", The Shamrock volume 8, page 107:
- (slang, archaic) To confound; to damn.
- 1831, John Banim, The Smuggler page 231:
- jigger me, but I think you be turning jest into earnest,
- 1887, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy page 173:
- It had always been his habit to say, "I will be jiggered," but this time he said, "I am jiggered."
- 1831, John Banim, The Smuggler page 231:
References
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933..
- Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th Edition. Merriam-Webster, 1993.
- jigger in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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jugger
English
Etymology
From Hindi ????? (jaggar, “falcon”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -???(?)
Noun
jugger (plural juggers)
- The Indian falcon (Falco jugger)
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