Chigger vs. Jigger — What's the Difference?

A tropical flea, the female of which burrows and lays eggs beneath the host's skin, causing painful sores.

A person who jigs or operates a jig.

A harvest mite.

A small measure for liquor, usually holding 1 1/2 ounces.

Any of various small, six-legged larvae of mites of the family Trombiculidae that parasitize humans and other vertebrates. The chigger's bite produces a wheal that is usually accompanied by severe itching. Also called chigoe, harvest bug, harvest mite, jigger2, red bug.

This amount of liquor.

See chigoe.

A device, such as a drill, that operates with a jerking or jolting motion.

A chigoe (Tunga penetrans), a kind of flea found in tropical climates.

A light all-purpose tackle.

A harvest mite, a very small, red mite endemic to the Midwestern and Southeastern US, the infestation of which causes intense itching.

A small sail set in the stern of a yawl or similar boat.

An East Asian person who behaves in ways similar to a stereotypical urban African American.

A boat having such a sail.

A small tropical flea (Tunga penetrans, formerly Pulex penetrans); same as chigoe.

A jigger mast.

A larval mite of the family Trombiculidae that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings, causing intense irritation, and serving to transmit several infectious diseases.

(Informal) An article or a device, the name of which eludes one.

Small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans

See chigger.

Larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation

See chigoe.

To tamper with or manipulate (data, for example) so as to achieve a desired result.

(US) A double-ended vessel, generally of stainless steel or other metal, one end of which typically measures 1½ fluid ounces (approx. 44 ml), the other typically 1 fluid ounce (approx. 30 ml).

(US) A measure of 1½ fluid ounces (approx. 44 ml) of liquor.

A drink of whisky.

(mining) The sieve used in sorting or separating ore.

(mining) One who jigs; a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging.

(pottery) A horizontal lathe used in producing flatware.

(textiles) A device used in the dyeing of cloth.

A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather.

A bicycle.

A golf club used to play low flying shots to the putting green from short distances.

A warehouse crane.

(nautical) 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.

(nautical) A jiggermast.

A small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl.

(fishing) A device used by fishermen to set their nets under the ice of frozen lakes.

(archaic) One who dances jigs; an odd-looking person.

(New Zealand) A short board or plank inserted into a tree for a person to stand on while cutting off higher branches.

(US) A placeholder name for any small mechanical device.

A railway jigger, a small motorized or human powered vehicle used by railway workers to traverse railway tracks.

The bridge or rest for the cue in billiards.

(horse racing) An illicit electric shock device used to urge on a horse during a race.

(archaic) A streetcar drawn by a single horse.

(archaic) A kind of early electric cash register.

A sandflea, Tunga penetrans, of the order Siphonaptera; chigoe.

A larva of any of several mites in the family Trombiculidae; chigger, harvest mite.

A prison; a jail cell.

An alleyway separating the backs of two rows of houses.

The penis.

A vagina.

A door.

(slang) An illegal distillery.

A lock pick.

To alter or adjust, particularly in ways not originally intended.

(pottery) To use a jigger.

To move, send, or drive with a jerk; to jerk; also, to drive or send over with a jerk, as a golf ball.

To imprison.

To confound; to damn.

A species of flea (Tunga penetrans, or Sarcopsylla penetrans, or Pulex penetrans), which burrows beneath the skin; called also jigger flea. See Chigoe.

Any one of several species of small red mites (esp. Tetranychus irritans and Tetranychus Americanus) of the family Trombiculidae, which, in the larval or leptus stage, burrow beneath the skin of man and various animals, causing great annoyance. Also called chigger.

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.

A horizontal table carrying a revolving mold, on which earthen vessels are shaped by rapid motion; a potter's wheel.

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.

A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather; same as Jack, 4 (i).

A small glass or measuring vessel holding 1½ ounces (45 ml), used mostly for measuring liquor or drinking whiskey; also, the quantity of liquid held in a jigger.

A thingamajig.

To move, send, or drive with a jerk; to jerk; also, to drive or send over with a jerk, as a golf ball.

A small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey

Any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl

Larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation