Jigget vs Jigger - What's the difference?
jigget | jigger |
A leg (of meat, regarded as food); a gigot of beef or lamb or other meat.
(dated) To gad; to move from one place to another in a (seemingly) flippant or idle manner.
* 1814 , Fanny Burney, The Wanderer, or, Female difficulties , page 290:
* 1818 , Mary Russel Mitford, in a letter to William Elford, The Life of Mary Russell Mitford , page 288:
* 1831 , Walter Scott, The Abbot'', in ''Waverley novels , volume 19, page 230:
* 1906 , Richard Davey, The pageant of London , volume 2, page 365:
* (rfdate), Rudyard Kipling, Kim :
(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 nouns the difference between jigget and jigger
is that jigget is a leg (of meat, regarded as food); a gigot of beef or lamb or other meat while 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.As verbs the difference between jigget and jigger
is that jigget is (dated) to gad; to move from one place to another in a (seemingly) flippant or idle manner while jigger is to alter or adjust, particularly in ways not originally intended or jigger can be (slang|obsolete) to imprison.jigget
English
Etymology 1
Variant of gigot .Noun
(en noun)- a jigget of beef
- jiggets of mutton
Etymology 2
Possibly related to jiggle .Verb
- " and jiggetting to outlandish countries, you'll do well to give her a hint to keep astern of me; for I shall never uphold a person who behaves o' that sort."
- I don't believe he is ever two days in a place — always jiggeting about from one great house to another.
- here you stand jiggetting , and sniggling, and looking cunning, as if there were some mighty matter of intrigue and common understanding betwixt you and me, whom you never set your eyes on before!
- but although he knew his Queen was dead, he went on jiggetting as if nothing had happened!
- Of all the boys hurrying back to St Xavier's, from Sukkur in the sands to Galle beneath the palms, none was so filled with virtue as Kimball O'Hara, jiggetting down to Umballa behind Hurree Chunder Mookerjee,
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 ."