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jaggers

jaggers is the plural of jagger.

Meaning of jagger

Noun (1)

jagger (plural jaggers)

  1. carrier, carter
  2. peddler, hawker
    • 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.1821, Sir Walter Scott, The Pirate
  3. A jagging iron used for crimping pies, cakes, etc.
  4. A toothed chisel.
  5. Synonym of jag (“thorn from a bush”).
    • I don't know if you've ever gotten close to a jagger bush, but those stickers can be pretty mean.2011, Larry Enright, A King in a Court of Fools
    Synonyms:
    jag

Noun (2)

jagger (plural jaggers)

  1. The offspring of a male jaguar and a female tiger.

See all 8 meanings of jagger

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Jaggers

Jaggers

  1. A surname.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Jaggers

Jaggers

  1. (archaic, Oxford University slang) Jesus College, Oxford

Origin of jaggers

Variant of Jagger with post-medieval excrescent -s.

Jocular modification of Jesus + -ers. See Oxford "-er".

Questions about jaggers

What does jaggers mean?
Jaggers means a surname.
What is jaggers the plural of?
Jaggers is the plural of jagger.
What part of speech is jaggers?
Jaggers is a proper noun.

Words near jaggers in the dictionary

  1. jaggered
  2. Jaggeresque
  3. jaggeries
  4. Jaggerish
  5. Jaggernaut
  6. jaggers
  7. jaggery
  8. jaggheries
  9. jagghery
  10. Jaggi
  11. jaggier

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