What's the difference between digger and jigger?

Digger


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, digs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sasaki, like other machinery operators, spends his shift inside crane and digger cabins, the only way they can clear dangerously radioactive debris.
  • (2) The field was taped off while a mechanical digger clawed at the ground, making parallel trenches in the sandy earth.
  • (3) When builders moved in a few weeks ago, it was marked in flamboyant Polish style with a commissioned "dance" for the diggers by director Robert Florczak, whose audacious multimedia Macbeth debuted at last year's Shakespeare festival.
  • (4) The effect of electrophoretic ejection of philanthotoxin (the polyamine toxin, from the Egyptian digger wasp) was tested on responses of brainstem and spinal neurones in the pentobarbitone-anaesthetized rat to excitatory amino acids.
  • (5) None of which stopped the gold-digger stories, which went through a highly hostile chapter when she and Bridge had a court hearing about child maintenance.
  • (6) Diggers have also been working to widen the mouth of the river to ensure that the mud drifts out to sea as quickly as possible, in the hope that the salinity and the volume of water will aid its rapid dispersal.
  • (7) The mining company official was reported to have said that "well-connected elites are generating millions of dollars in personal income by hiring teams of diggers to hand-extract diamonds" from Chiadzwa, before reselling the stones to shady foreign buyers.
  • (8) After a morning of tearing at the same ground two decades on, the digger overheated and had to be rested.
  • (9) A few dozen workers from the Frontier Works Organisation (FWO), an arm of the Pakistani military, have been making slow progress picking at the massive dam with mechanical diggers and explosives.
  • (10) He knows where the Chernobyl bodies are buried, he says, because he was the grave digger.
  • (11) Digger will not argue with the analysis that people should not try to rehabilitate their own reputations at the expense of English international relations in football.
  • (12) Still, Dughan took them roundabout ways, through Blythborough, on the A145 towards Uggeshall, past still diggers where roads were being widened.
  • (13) But any digger hoping for the kind of gold bars you see in heist movies would have been disappointed.
  • (14) Semi-fossorial species among rodents and insectivores are scratch-diggers.
  • (15) Pigment granule migration in pigment cells and retinula cells of the digger wasp Sphex cognatus Smith was analysed morphologically after light adaptation to natural light, dark adaptation and after four selective chromatic adaptations in the range between 358 nm and 580 nm and used as the index of receptor cell sensitivity.
  • (16) Despite the daily pulling of toddlers through the roll call of highlights – Digger!
  • (17) A digger was then used to extract the car which had been flattened by the landslide and crushed by the root system of a large tree.
  • (18) Black diggers fought and died for a nation that denied them the right to vote.
  • (19) The pigs are prodigious diggers and tropical island's torrential rainstorms then wash the soil out to the waters that are home to renowned sharks and corals.
  • (20) Crisis PR is a booming business , helping to divert attention from the antics of offspring and gold-diggers.

Jigger


Definition:

  • (n.) A species of flea (Sarcopsylla, / Pulex, penetrans), which burrows beneath the skin. See Chigoe.
  • (n. & v.) 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.
  • (n. & v.) A horizontal table carrying a revolving mold, on which earthen vessels are shaped by rapid motion; a potter's wheel.
  • (n. & v.) A templet or tool by which vessels are shaped on a potter's wheel.
  • (n. & v.) A light tackle, consisting of a double and single block and the fall, used for various purposes, as to increase the purchase on a topsail sheet in hauling it home; the watch tackle.
  • (n. & v.) A small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl.
  • (n. & v.) A supplementary sail. See Dandy, n., 2 (b).
  • (n.) A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather; same as Jack, 4 (i).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They re-jiggered their primary system to enhance party influence in choosing a candidate, and Trump, the great orange-haired Unintended Consequence, has played their innovations like a fiddle.
  • (2) 11.48am: I'm examining those groups in a bid to come up with a Group of Death, but I'm jiggered if I can find one.
  • (3) The swamps are host to malaria, bilharzia and jigger worms, which burrow into human skin and can cause secondary infections, including tetanus and gangrene.
  • (4) 12 min: The match ball, having been mindlessly kicked in the face Goleo VI style, is jiggered, rather like domestic victim Pille the Erudite Ball.
  • (5) The following semester, in a college production of Carousel, having shed over 100lb, he played the villain Jigger.
  • (6) Argentina in their lovely blue-and-white shirts, and tradition-jiggering white shorts which are NOT OK. Look at the picture of Batistuta in this preamable, and think on, Adidas, Fifa, the AFA, or whoever's at fault for this sartorial disgrace.
  • (7) City jigger about with the ball on the edge of the City area, before Ferdinand cuts out a pass through to Aguero.
  • (8) Inside these structures, children mostly sit on bare earth, and emerge bathed in dust and infested with jiggers (a pest that burrows into the skin, generally under the toenails and fingernails).
  • (9) 7.02pm BST Dramatis personæ Barcelona leave the half-jiggered Leo Messi on the bench, while Alex Song makes a rare appearance.
  • (10) And no wonder, Fulham were coming back strongly into the match but that's jiggered their momentum.
  • (11) A case of infestation with Tunga penetrans (jigger flea) is described.
  • (12) Porto's defence could be properly jiggered come the start of the season: an increasingly hectic Liverpool may be making off with Christian Atsu , too.
  • (13) Two corners follow, from the second of which and after much jiggering around, City fashion what would have been a chance had three of them not all been offside.