JIGGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jigger mean? 

• JIGGER (noun)
  The noun JIGGER has 3 senses:

1. a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey

2. any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl

3. larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation

  Familiarity information: JIGGER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JIGGER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

jigger; pony; shot glass

Hypernyms ("jigger" is a kind of...):

drinking glass; glass (a container made of glass for holding liquids while drinking)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

jigger; jiggermast

Hypernyms ("jigger" is a kind of...):

mast (a vertical spar for supporting sails)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

chigger; harvest mite; jigger; redbug

Hypernyms ("jigger" is a kind of...):

trombiculid (mite that as nymph and adult feeds on early stages of small arthropods but whose larvae are parasitic on terrestrial vertebrates)

Holonyms ("jigger" is a member of...):

genus Trombicula; Trombicula (type genus of the family Trombiculidae)