Antonyms for jiggered

Grammar : Verb

Spell : jig-erd

Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʒɪg ərd

calm
soothe

Definition of jiggered

Origin : "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.

As in jiggle : verb bounce up and down

Example sentences :

I'll be jiggered if the Zeppelin isn't going to have it out with them!
Extract from : « The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battlefields » by Lieut. Howard Payson

Discipline be jiggered—that might do mischief—if you drove it too hard.
Extract from : « Love and Lucy » by Maurice Henry Hewlett

Then he came slowly up, and ‘jiggered’ savagely at the line.
Extract from : « Angling Sketches » by Andrew Lang

Mr. Russell read on, and such exclamations as "Well, I'm jiggered!"
Extract from : « Dialstone Lane, Complete » by W.W. Jacobs

"I—well I'll be jiggered—" he added, feeling through his pockets.
Extract from : « Alice in Blunderland » by John Kendrick Bangs

The constable poked his head in and said, Well, Ill be jiggered!
Extract from : « Roy Blakeley's Motor Caravan » by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

You may be jiggered as much as you like—but must you go to London?
Extract from : « A Young Man's Year » by Anthony Hope

So he was not "jiggered" (whatever that may be), as he refused to enter the room again.
Extract from : « There is no Death » by Florence Marryatt

"Well, I'm jiggered," Mr. Garratt answered, after a moment's hesitation.
Extract from : « Margaret Vincent » by Sophia Lucy Clifford

But yest'day I'm jiggered if I didn't see him mendin' his pasture fence.
Extract from : « Janice Day » by Helen Beecher Long

Synonyms for jiggered

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