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Jiggered

adjective
1.
(British informal expletive) surprised.





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"Jiggered" Quotes from Famous Books



... jiggered." murmured Mr. Ivo Hobbs. "I could have sworn he was a fake." He pressed more closely to the bars, and peered at Nickie with a critical, if somewhat beery eye, and the Missing Link posed languidly in a monkey attitude. Suddenly ...
— The Missing Link • Edward Dyson
... to the office rather later than usual the next morning. They told him I was already there, but he wouldn't believe it until he had come into my private den and with his own eyes had seen me. "Well, I'm jiggered!" said he. "It seems to have made less impression on you than it did on us. My missus and the little un wouldn't let me go to bed till after two. They sat on and on, ...
— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 • Various
... the most stupendous exertion of self-restraint on my part that I said: "Well, I'll be—jiggered," instead of something a little less unique. Her audacity staggered me. (I was not prepared at that time to speak of ...
— A Fool and His Money • George Barr McCutcheon
... read on, and such exclamations as "Well, I'm jiggered!" "Well, I'm blest!" and others of a more complicated nature continued to issue from ...
— Dialstone Lane, Complete • W.W. Jacobs


Words linked to "Jiggered" :   Britain, colloquialism, Great Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, surprised, U.K., United Kingdom, UK


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