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Yes. The word jigger is a Scrabble US word. The word jigger is worth 15 points in Scrabble:

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6-letter words (1 found)

JIGGER,

5-letter words (1 found)

REJIG,

4-letter words (2 found)

GRIG,RIGG,

3-letter words (11 found)

EGG,ERG,GER,GIE,GIG,IGG,IRE,JIG,REG,REI,RIG,

2-letter words (3 found)

ER,GI,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 19 words from jigger according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of jigger

jigger

English

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɪɡɚ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɪɡə/
  • Rhymes: -ɪɡə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From jig +‎ -er (agent suffix). Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary suggests a possible link to Old High German gīga (“fiddle”).

Noun

jigger (plural jiggers)

  1. (US) A double-ended vessel, generally of stainless steel or other metal, one end of which typically measures 1½ fluid ounces (approx. 44 ml), the other typically 1 fluid ounce (approx. 30 ml).
    • 2000, Robert B. Hess, drinkboy.com:
      A good jigger will have a well formed lip that will pour a clean stream into the cocktail shaker or glass.
  2. (US) A measure of 1½ fluid ounces (approx. 44 ml) of liquor.
  3. (US, slang) A drink of whiskey.
  4. (mining) The sieve used in sorting or separating ore.
  5. (mining) One who jigs; a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging.
  6. (pottery) A horizontal lathe used in producing flatware.
  7. (textiles) A device used in the dyeing of cloth.
  8. A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather.
  9. (UK, slang, dated) A bicycle.
  10. (golf, dated) A golf club used to play low flying shots to the putting green from short distances.
  11. A warehouse crane.
  12. (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.
  13. (nautical) A jiggermast.
  14. (nautical, New England) A small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl.
  15. (fishing) A device used by fishermen to set their nets under the ice of frozen lakes.
  16. (archaic) One who dances jigs; an odd-looking person.
  17. (New Zealand) A short board or plank inserted into a tree for a person to stand on while cutting off higher branches.
  18. (US) A placeholder name for any small mechanical device.
  19. (rail transport, New Zealand) A railway jigger, a small motorized or human powered vehicle used by railway workers to traverse railway tracks.
  20. The bridge or rest for the cue in billiards.
  21. (horse racing) An illicit electric shock device used to urge on a horse during a race.
  22. (archaic) A streetcar drawn by a single horse.
  23. (archaic) A kind of early electric cash register.
  24. (Australia, surveying, slang) A total station or its predecessor, a theodolite.
Synonyms
  • (pottery lathe): jolley
  • (nautical mast): jiggermast
  • (measure of liquor): pony
  • (placeholder name): thingamajig; doojigger; see also Thesaurus:thingy
  • (rail vehicle): handcar; speeder
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Catalan: gigre
Translations

Verb

jigger (third-person singular simple present jiggers, present participle jiggering, simple past and past participle jiggered)

  1. (transitive) To alter or adjust, particularly in ways not originally intended.
  2. (pottery, transitive) To use a jigger.
  3. (transitive) To move, send, or drive with a jerk; to jerk; also, to drive or send over with a jerk, as a golf ball.
Synonyms
  • (use a pottery jigger): jolley
Derived terms
  • jiggerer
  • jiggered
See also
  • fudge
  • tweak

Etymology 2

Likely a corruption of chigoe. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary suggests a possible derivation from Wolof jiga (“insect”).

Noun

jigger (plural jiggers)

  1. A sandflea, Tunga penetrans, of the order Siphonaptera; chigoe.
  2. A larva of any of several mites in the family Trombiculidae; chigger, harvest mite.
Translations

Etymology 3

A slang term of unknown origin, originally meaning prison. Oxford English Dictionary suggests that its origin might be the same as Etymology 1, above.

Alternative forms

  • gigger, gyger, jegger

Noun

jigger (plural jiggers)

  1. (slang, archaic) A prison; a jail cell.
  2. (dialect, Liverpool, dated) An alleyway separating the backs of two rows of houses.
  3. (slang, euphemistic, dated) The penis.
  4. (slang, euphemistic) A vagina.
  5. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A door.
  6. (slang) An illegal distillery.
  7. (slang, UK) Ellipsis of jigger gun (“lock pick”).
Synonyms
  • (alleyway): See Thesaurus:alley
Derived terms
  • jigger-dubber (“jailer”)

Verb

jigger (third-person singular simple present jiggers, present participle jiggering, simple past and past participle jiggered)

  1. (slang, obsolete) To imprison.
  2. (slang, archaic) To confound; to damn.

References

  • James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Jigger”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC..
  • Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th Edition. Merriam-Webster, 1993.
  • “jigger”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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