Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun jigger
3 senses of jigger
Sense 1
shot glass, jigger, pony -- (a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey)
=> glass, drinking glass -- (a container for holding liquids while drinking)
Sense 2
jiggermast, jigger -- (any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl)
=> mast -- (a vertical spar for supporting sails)
Sense 3
harvest mite, chigger, jigger, redbug -- (larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation)
=> trombiculid -- (mite that as nymph and adult feeds on early stages of small arthropods but whose larvae are parasitic on terrestrial vertebrates)