jigger
pronunciation
How to pronounce jigger in British English:
UK [ˈdʒɪgə(r)]
How to pronounce jigger in American English:
US [ˈdʒɪɡɚ]
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- Noun:
- a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey
- any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl
- larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation
Word Origin
- jigger (n.)
- "1.5-ounce shot glass," 1836, American English, in early use also of the drink itself, from jigger "illicit distillery" (1824), of unknown origin; or else perhaps from jigger, a 1756 alteration of chigger "tiny mite or flea." As a name for various appliances, the word is attested by 1825, from jig.
Example
- 1. The technologies of measuring and control of jigger .
- 2. Have you seen that jigger I fix the radio with ?
- 3. They find jigger and snooze trying to calm brooks , who has heywood in a choke hold and a knife to his throat .
- 4. Fuzzy control for jigger discharge system .
- 5. How they make it : frozen ground beef , cut with a jigger .