Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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jigger

UK /ˈd͡ʒɪɡə/ · US /ˈd͡ʒɪɡɚ/ noun, verb

Forms jiggers jiggering jiggered gigger gyger jegger

  1. noun (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).
  2. noun (US) A measure of 1½ fluid ounces (approx. 44 ml) of liquor.
  3. noun (US, slang) A drink of whiskey.
  4. noun (mining) The sieve used in sorting or separating ore.
  5. noun (mining) One who jigs; a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging.
  6. noun (pottery) A horizontal lathe used in producing flatware.
  7. noun (textiles) A device used in the dyeing of cloth.
  8. noun A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather.
  9. verb (transitive) To alter or adjust, particularly in ways not originally intended. “You'll have to jigger it from the original specifications to get it to work.”
  10. verb (pottery, transitive) To use a jigger.
  11. verb (transitive) To move, send, or drive with a jerk; to jerk; also, to drive or send over with a jerk, as a golf ball.
  12. noun A sandflea, Tunga penetrans, of the order Siphonaptera; chigoe.
  13. noun A larva of any of several mites in the family Trombiculidae; chigger, harvest mite.
  14. noun (slang, archaic) A prison; a jail cell.
  15. noun (dialect, Liverpool, dated) An alleyway separating the backs of two rows of houses.
  16. noun (slang, euphemistic, dated) The penis.
  17. noun (slang, euphemistic) A vagina.
  18. noun (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A door.
  19. noun (slang) An illegal distillery.
  20. verb (slang, obsolete) To imprison.

Synonyms

pony jolley jiggermast thingamajig doojigger handcar speeder alley shot glass harvest mite chigger redbug

Etymology

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

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

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

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A species of flea (Sarcopsylla, or Pulex, penetrans), which burrows beneath the skin. See Chigoe.
  2. noun One who, or that which, jigs; specifically, a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging; also, the sieve used in jigging.
  3. noun (a) A horizontal table carrying a revolving mold, on which earthen vessels are shaped by rapid motion; a potter's wheel.

Etymology [A corrupt. of chigre.]

Etymology [See Jig, n. & v.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “jigger”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details