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jiggered

[jig-erd] /ˈdʒɪg ərd/
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adjective, Informal.
1.
confounded; damned:
I'm jiggered if I know what that sign means.
Origin of jiggered
1830-1840
1830-40; perhaps jigger3 + -ed2

jigger3

[jig-er] /ˈdʒɪg ər/
verb (used with object)
1.
to interfere with.
2.
to manipulate or alter, especially in order to get something done illegally or unethically:
to jigger company records to conceal a loss.
Origin
1865-70; jig2 (in verbal sense) + -er6
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  • I'll be jiggered if the Zeppelin isn't going to have it out with them!

    The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battlefields Lieut. Howard Payson

  • Discipline be jiggered—that might do mischief—if you drove it too hard.

    Love and Lucy

         Maurice Henry Hewlett

  • Then he came slowly up, and ‘jiggered’ savagely at the line.

    Angling Sketches Andrew Lang

  • Mr. Russell read on, and such exclamations as "Well, I'm jiggered!"

    Dialstone Lane, Complete W.W. Jacobs

  • "I—well I'll be jiggered—" he added, feeling through his pockets.

    Alice in Blunderland John Kendrick Bangs

  • The constable poked his head in and said, Well, Ill be jiggered!

    Roy Blakeley's Motor Caravan Percy Keese Fitzhugh

  • You may be jiggered as much as you like—but must you go to London?

    A Young Man's Year Anthony Hope

  • So he was not "jiggered" (whatever that may be), as he refused to enter the room again.

    There is no Death Florence Marryatt

  • "Well, I'm jiggered," Mr. Garratt answered, after a moment's hesitation.

    Margaret Vincent Sophia Lucy Clifford

  • But yest'day I'm jiggered if I didn't see him mendin' his pasture fence.

    Janice Day Helen Beecher Long
British Dictionary definitions for jiggered

jiggered

/ˈdʒɪɡəd/
adjective (postpositive)
1.
(informal) damned; blowed: I'm jiggered if he'll get away with it
2.
(sometimes foll by up) (Scot & Northern English, dialect) tired out
Word Origin
C19: probably euphemism for buggered; see bugger

jigger1

/ˈdʒɪɡə/
noun
1.
a person or thing that jigs
2.
(golf) an iron, now obsolete, with a thin blade, used for hitting long shots from a bare lie
3.
any of a number of mechanical devices having a vibratory or jerking motion
4.
a light lifting tackle used on ships
5.
a small glass, esp for whisky, with a capacity of about one and a half ounces
6.
(NZ) a light hand- or power-propelled vehicle used on railway lines
7.
(engineering) a type of hydraulic lift in which a hydraulic ram operates the lift through a block and tackle which increases the length of the stroke
8.
(Canadian) a device used when setting a gill net beneath ice
9.
(mining) another word for jig (sense 5)
10.
(nautical) short for jiggermast
11.
(billiards) another word for bridge1 (sense 10)
12.
(US & Canadian, informal) a device or thing the name of which is unknown or temporarily forgotten
13.
(Liverpool, dialect) an alleyway

jigger2

/ˈdʒɪɡə/
noun
1.
other names for the chigoe (sense 1)
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Word Origin and History for jiggered

jigger

n.

"1.5-ounce shot glass," 1836, American English, in early use also of the drink itself, from jigger "illicit distillery" (1824), of unknown origin; or else perhaps from jigger, a 1756 alteration of chigger "tiny mite or flea." As a name for various appliances, the word is attested by 1825, from jig.

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jiggered in Medicine

jigger jig·ger2 (jĭg'ər)
n.

  1. See chigger.

  2. See chigoe.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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Slang definitions & phrases for jiggered

jiggered

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i'll be damned

jigger

noun

  1. An artificially made sore, usually on the arm or leg, useful in begging: whether it will pay to use his ''jigger'' (1890s+ Hoboes)
  2. A liquor glass of one-anda-half ounce capacity; shot glass (1857+)
  3. thingamajig (1874+)

verb

  1. To interfere with; queer: jigger our riding on the railroad (1890s+ Hoboes)
  2. To tamper with or falsify; doctor: There is pressure from Casey to jigger estimates/ how the gold trading was jiggered (1970s+)

Related Terms

doodad, i'll be damned

[giger, ''lock,'' is found by 1612, apparently coined by Thomas Dekker, and is probably the source of the third noun sense]

The Dictionary of American Slang, Fourth Edition by Barbara Ann Kipfer, PhD. and Robert L. Chapman, Ph.D.
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