jagger
See also: Jagger
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒæɡə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -æɡə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
Noun
jagger (plural jaggers)
- carrier, carter
- peddler, hawker
- 1821, Sir Walter Scott, The Pirate:
- The jagger, with those green, goggling, and gain-descrying kind of optics, which we have already described, continued gazing for an instant after the customer, who treated his wares with such irreverence.
- A jagging iron used for crimping pies, cakes, etc.
- A toothed chisel.
- Synonym of jag (“thorn from a bush”).
- 2011, Larry Enright, A King in a Court of Fools:
- I don't know if you've ever gotten close to a jagger bush, but those stickers can be pretty mean.
- 2011- , Chris Preksta, Curt Wootton, Pittsburgh Dad: Everything Your Dad Has Said to You
- How about we play The Store is a jagger bush and you don't touch nothing.
References
- “jagger”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Etymology 2
Noun
jagger (plural jaggers)