Jigger-dubber. See Jigger, sense 2.
Jiggered. To be jiggered! verb. phr. (common).—Used as a mild imprecation; as Blow it! (q.v.), Bust me! (q.v.): also in astonishment.
1860. Dickens, Great Expectations, xvii. 76. 'Well, then', said he, 'I'm jiggered if I don't see you home!'
1883. Clark Russell, Sailor's Language, s.v.
1884. Daily Telegraph, Feb. 2. p. 3. col. 2. 'We ain't seen the p'liceman since, and jiggered if we want to.'
1886. Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy, ii. 'Well,' said Mr. Hobbs, 'I'll be jiggered!'
1888. Notes and Queries, 7 S. vi. 322. Lately, I read an article beginning with 'I'm jiggered if I don't love Jane.'
1892. Milliken, 'Arry Ballads, 73. Kerrectness be folly, well jiggered.
Jiggered up, adv. (nautical).—Used
up; Exhausted.
1867. Smyth, Sailor's Word Book. s.v.
1883. Clark Russell, Sailor's Language, s.v. Jiggered.
Jiggery-pokery, subs. (tailors').—Humbug;
nonsense.
Jiglets. His Jiglets! phr. (American).—A
contemptuous form of
address; his nibs (q.v.).
1888. Boston Globe, 4 March, Ain't his jiglets pretty near ready to see de rat, Jummy.
Jig-water, subs. (American).—Bad
whisky; rot-gut (q.v.). For synonyms
see Drinks and Old Man's
Milk.
1888. Boston Globe, March 4. A middle-aged countryman had just tottered away from the counter over which jig-water is dispensed.
Jiggle, verb. (venery).—To copulate.
Hence jiggling-bone =
penis. For synonyms see Cream-*stick
and Prick.
Jiggumbob (or Jiggambob), subs.
(common).—1. A knick-knack; a
trinket: anything particular, strange,
or unknown. Cf. Thingambob.
1640. Brome, Antipodes, iii. 5. Kills Monster after Monster, takes the Puppets Prisoners, knocks downe the Cyclops, tumbles all Our jigumbobs and trinckets to the wall.
1647. Beaumont & Fletcher, Knight of Malta, iv. 1. More jiggambobs: is not this the fellow that swom like a duck to the shore.
1657. Middleton, Women Beware Women, ii. 2. On with her chain of pearls, her ruby bracelets, lay ready all her tricks and jiggembobs.
1678. Butler, Hudibras, III. i. 108. He rifled all his pokes and fobs Of jimcracks, whims, and jiggumbobs.
2. (venery).—The female pudendum. For synonyms see Monosyllable.
1675. Cotton, Scarronides, in Wks (1725), Bk. iv. p. 65. Were I not with my first Honey Half tyr'd as t'were with Matrimony; I could with this same Youngster tall, Find in my heart to try a fall . . . This only . . . has made my Jiggambob to water.
3. in pl. (venery).—The testicles: for synonyms see Cods.—Grose (1785).
Jill. See gill.
Jill-flirt. See gill-flirt.
Jilt, subs. (old: now recognised).—Specifically, a woman who encourages, or solicits, advances to which she designs there shall be no practical end. But see quots. passim. Hence jilted and jilt, verb.
