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Jigger

noun
1.
A small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey.  Synonyms: pony, shot glass.
2.
Any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl.  Synonym: jiggermast.
3.
Larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation.  Synonyms: chigger, harvest mite, redbug.






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"Jigger" Quotes from Famous Books



... as I could into the bush and am screening the exposed part with bushes so that it won't be spotted from aloft. There's not much wrong with it, rather a bad strip of the fabric ripped off as I was coming down, but I struck an abandoned farm yesterday a mile from here, and when I cover up the jigger, I'm just going over to see if I can fossick out something ...
— The Sequel - What the Great War will mean to Australia • George A. Taylor

... As Hogan says, Mars, who was th' gawd iv war, was no good onless he was pushed into throuble be Backis, the gawd iv dhrink. About th' time Mars was r-ready to quit an' go home to do th' Spring plowin', Backis handed him a jigger iv kerosene an' says: 'That fellow over there is leerin' at ye. Ar-re ye goin' to stand that?' an' Mars bustled in. Th' barkeeper an' th' banker ar-re ...
— Mr. Dooley Says • Finley Dunne

... extending his hand to the left. "First bungalow is Mister Laloo's, buggies and hot dogs. There's Bill Appleby's—say, he's a character, rolling in money—we'll drop in to see him. Firmin's store's next and the Jigger Shop's at the end." ...
— The Varmint • Owen Johnson

... divers, and all upon the lay, [1] In Tothill-fields gay sheepwalk, like lambs ye sport and play; [2] Rattling up your darbies, come hither at my call; I'm jigger dubber here, and you are welcome to mill doll. [3] With ...
— Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs - and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] • John S. Farmer

... standi[Lat]; landing place, landing stage; stage, platform; block; rest, resting place; groundwork, substratum, riprap, sustentation, subvention; floor &c. (basement) 211. supporter; aid &c. 707; prop, stand, anvil, fulciment|; cue rest, jigger; monkey; stay, shore, skid, rib, truss, bandage; sleeper; stirrup, stilts, shoe, sole, heel, splint, lap, bar, rod, boom, sprit[obs3], outrigger; ratlings[obs3]. staff, stick, crutch, alpenstock, baton, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus

... watch it all the time, but just sort of have an eye out. I'm taking this little jigger out of the distributer, so no one could run the old bus anyway. But you just have an eye ...
— Pee-wee Harris on the Trail • Percy Keese Fitzhugh



Words linked to "Jigger" :   trombiculid, Trombicula, drinking glass, mast, genus Trombicula, glass



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