Jiggered vs Biggered - What's the difference?
jiggered | biggered |
(jigger)
Very tired.
Broken.
(British) Surprised.
(bigger)
(big)
* 1812 , A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts (Walter Scott, John Somers), page 146:
* , chapter=5
, title= (nonstandard, rare) To make or become bigger.
* {{quote-book, 1871, Julian Leep, A Ready-Made Family, volume=1, page=322, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=mny99S_fR4AC&pg=PA322, edition=2009 ed.
, passage=She's in along with mother, talking about the college; it's to be biggered , sir. }}
* {{quote-book, 1971,
, passage=But I had to grow bigger. So bigger I got.
I biggered my factory. I biggered my roads.}}* {{quote-news, 2002, August 5, Mark Gibbs, IBM and PwC: Rhyme and Reasons, Network World, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=4hgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT69, page=69
, passage=The money they splurged to the board's delight
Will be spent biggering IT services, clean out of sight}}
As verbs the difference between jiggered and biggered
is that jiggered is past tense of jigger while biggered is past tense of bigger.As an adjective jiggered
is very tired.jiggered
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- "Well then," said he, "I'm jiggered if I don't see you home!"'' - Charles Dickens - ''Great Expectations
Synonyms
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*biggered
English
Verb
(head)bigger
English
Adjective
(head)- That whereas, and whereby, and by which, the major, and most greater, and most bigger , and most stronger party,
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.}}
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(en verb)citation
I biggered my factory. I biggered my roads.}}
Will be spent biggering IT services, clean out of sight}}