Jigged vs Jigger - What's the difference?
jigged | jigger |
(jig)
(music) A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.
* 2012 , Tom Lamont, How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world'' (in ''The Daily Telegraph , 15 November 2012)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/nov/15/mumford-sons-biggest-band-world]
A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.
(fishing) A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.
(mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
(obsolete) A light, humorous piece of writing, especially in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.
* (rfdate) Beaumont and Fletcher
(obsolete) A trick; a prank.
* (rfdate) Beaumont and Fletcher
To move briskly, especially as a dance.
(fishing) To fish with a jig.
To sing to the tune of a jig.
* Shakespeare
To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
(mining) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.
To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
(US) A double-ended vessel, generally of stainless steel or other metal, one end of which typically measures 1 1/2 fluid ounces, the other typically 1 fluid ounce.
* 2000 , Robert B. Hess,
(US) A measure of 1 1/2 fluid ounces of liquor.
(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 ,
(textiles) A device used in the dyeing of cloth.
A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather.
(golf, dated) A wooden or metal headed golf club used to play low flying shots to the putting green from short distances.
(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 tree for a person to stand on while cutting off higher branches.
(US) A placeholder name for any small mechanical device.
To alter or adjust, particularly in ways not originally intended.
(pottery) To use a jigger.
A sandflea, Tunga penetrans , of the order Siphonaptera; chigoe.
A larva of any of several mites in the family ; chigger, harvest mite.
(slang, archaic) A prison; a jail cell.
(dialect, Scouse, dated) An alleyway separating the backs of two rows of houses.
(slang, euphemism) A penis.
(slang, euphemism) A vagina.
(slang) A door.
(slang) An illegal distillery.
(slang, obsolete) To imprison.
* 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:
* 1887 , Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy page 173:
As verbs the difference between jigged and jigger
is that jigged is (jig) while jigger is to alter or adjust, particularly in ways not originally intended or jigger can be (slang|obsolete) to imprison.As a noun jigger is
(us) a double-ended vessel, generally of stainless steel or other metal, one end of which typically measures 1 1/2 fluid ounces, the other typically 1 fluid ounce or jigger can be a sandflea, tunga penetrans , of the order siphonaptera; chigoe or jigger can be (slang|archaic) a prison; a jail cell.jigged
English
Verb
(head)jig
English
Noun
(en noun)- they danced a jig
- Soon Marshall is doing an elaborate foot-to-foot jig , and then they're all bounding around. Shoulder dips. Yee-ha faces. It's an impromptu hoedown.
- Cutting circles out of pinewood is best done with a compass-style jig .
- A jig shall be clapped at, and every rhyme / Praised and applauded.
- Is't not a fine jig , / A precious cunning, in the late Protector?
Derived terms
* the jig is up * dance the hempen jigVerb
- The guests were jigging around on the dancefloor
- Jig off a tune at the tongue's end.
- (Ford)
jigger
English
Etymology 1
Agent noun of the verb jig. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary suggests a possible link to (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)drinkboy.com:
- A good jigger will have a well formed lip that will pour a clean stream into the cocktail shaker or glass.
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.
Synonyms
* (pottery lathe) jolley * (nautical mast) jiggermast * (measure of liquor) pony * (placeholder name) thingamajig; doojiggerVerb
(en verb)- You'll have to jigger it from the original specifications to get it to work.
Synonyms
* (use a pottery jigger) jolleyDerived terms
* jiggerer * jiggeredSee also
* fudge * tweakEtymology 2
Likely a corruption of chigoe. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary suggests a possible derivation from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 3
A slang term of unknown origin, originally meaning prison. Oxford English Dictionary suggests that its origin might be the same as , above.Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- ...offering to swear an alibi'' for the prisoner [...] to ensure an acquittal. Terms: £50 for value received. No pay if ''jiggered .
- jigger me, but I think you be turning jest into earnest,
- It had always been his habit to say, "I will'' be jiggered'''," but this time he said, "I ''am'' ' jiggered ."