Noun: jigger
| Singular | jigger |
| Plural | jiggers |
Sample Sentences
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A good jigger will have a well formed lip that will pour a clean stream into the cocktail shaker or glass. [2000, Robert B. Hess, drinkboy.com]
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He also championed the “bartender’s choice” found on many cocktail menus, the use of jiggers to measure out drinks, and even the ubiquitous use of cucumber slices in water glasses. [2015 August 22, Robert Simonson, “Sasha Petraske, 42, Dies; Bar Owner Restored Luster to Cocktail Culture”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
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“People are so dam’ sensitive about colour around here that you can’t even ask a barman for a jigger of rum. You have to ask for a jegro.” [1956, Ian Fleming, chapter 13, in Diamonds Are Forever:]
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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. [2004, thepotteries.org, Jiggering:]
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He made the discovery that the bikestand was vacant and the machine gone. "Where the thump's my jigger?" he exclaimed. [1932, Frank Richards, “The Complete Outsider”, in The Magnet:]
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'[…] And that's your little jigger waiting then? I'm looking forward to something on four wheels myself, but so far I have to be content with two.'
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'It's hardly worth while offering you a lift,' said Carrados, when they were in the road, 'but if you don't mind I should like to walk with you as far as your gate.' [1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries:]
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“an air-brush is a big thing-a-ma-bob or whatcha-callit, full of gas, and when you turn on a little jigger, it causes compressed air to squeeze out, which, in turn, going through a needle—” “That wasn't part of the contract, Mr. Jones,” […] [1915, Printers' Ink, page 119:]
Nouns inflected like jigger
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From jig + -er (agent suffix). Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary suggests a possible link to Old High German gīga (“fiddle”), for which see modern German Geige. See: German Nouns '
Geige'.
Verbs referencing "jigger"
Asturian Nouns
chigre, Asturian Nouns
tabierna, Catalan Nouns
gigre.