(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.
Tweak
Definition:
(v. t.) To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch; as, to tweak the nose.
(n.) A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch; as, a tweak of the nose.
(n.) Trouble; distress; tweag.
(n.) A prostitute.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bojan Krkic had been snuffed out in his central role for Stoke and Hughes’s tweaks would have paid off if Diouf’s finishing had been more incisive.
(2) Starting small, with oddly tweaked vocal samples and ominous-sounding piano, the first half is brilliantly brooding, to the point where the first chorus of “I love these streets but they weren’t meant for me to walk” arrives at the 45-second mark just as all the music drops away completely.
(3) That's likely to mean a tweak in set-up – most likely Vidal will play in more of an advanced role, with Silva adding extra ballast in behind him.
(4) Figures from the Halifax showing a 2.4% rise in prices in February could put pressure on the chancellor to announce tweaks to Help to Buy in next week's budget.
(5) And we will report back on how we are doing and we might have to tweak, but this is what we are aiming for."
(6) Once humans have gained "total mastery over morphological genetics", post-60,000 years from now, we'll be tweaking our children's DNA so that they're born with straight noses, regal lines and perfect facial symmetry.
(7) The Liverpool manager, Brendan Rodgers, secured Fabio Borini from Roma last week and is still hoping to tweak his squad before the new season, retaining interest in Fulham's Clint Dempsey and the Swansea City midfielder Joe Allen, and any money from Carroll's sale would bolster the funds at his disposal.
(8) "That essentially is just a group of people agreeing on tweaking things and making them a little bit different.
(9) The results are stunning and include precise measurements of the matter content of the universe and a tweak to the best estimate for its age.
(10) The Observer view on tax credit cuts | Observer editorial Read more “These are very significant changes and therefore I am sure the chancellor is keeping an open mind and will be looking to see whether any specific tweaks need to be made in the comprehensive spending review which takes place next month,” he said.
(11) It will need lots of tweaking to avoid annoying people – it's already being prodded to see whether it takes more or fewer clicks to reach the phone-dialer (more), and whether you can still set wallpaper (no, but your friends do with their picture – you may need to prune your friends).
(12) So let us tweak the question slightly and ask: what is the point of Jimmy Carr?
(13) The show's storylines were tweaked to take account of the new post-watershed slot.
(14) Osborne won limited support for "technical" tweaks to the draft legislation , although it appeared unlikely that Britain would make big gains in seeking to reverse the key points.
(15) The Department for Transport unveiled several tweaks to the first stage of the HS2 route to mollify opponents in the wealthy commuter belt north and west of London.
(16) To Geldof’s credit, he has said some of the lyrics will be tweaked slightly for this new version.
(17) She has been staying in the Y:Cube temporarily as a test to help the architects tweak the interior design.
(18) The engineers have put a brave face on the crash landings, tweaking navigation software, landing trajectories and other details based on each test.
(19) It may also offer tweaked devices to get around any injunction: "Samsung has already made some design changes to new products since the litigation first started more than a year ago," said Seo Won-seok, an analyst at Korea Investment & Securities.
(20) What they are prepared to do is tweak the existing doctrine," said Rebecca Johnson, the head of the Acronym Institute, a pro-disarmament pressure group.