jagger

carrier, carter

Noun

  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...
  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:
    • 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.

    Synonyms: jag

Origin

Etymology tree English jag English -er English jagger From jag + -er.

Forms

jaggers

Noun Entry 2

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

Origin

Blend of jaguar + tiger.

Forms

jaggers