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doojigger, n. U.S. colloq.|ˈduːdʒɪgə(r)|
Also dojigger, do-jigger, doo-jigger.
[f. doodad n. + jigger n.1 5 l.]
A small object or (esp. mechanical) contrivance; a gadget or ‘thingummy’.
1927, etc. in H. Wentworth Amer. Dial. Dict. (1944) 174/1 Doojigger. 1932W. A. Rukeyser Working for Soviets ix. 116 Here were the true provincial types..Mongols, Tartars,..a Chinese selling little do-jiggers made of colored papers. 1938‘E. Queen’ Four of Hearts iv. 65 Since you don't ascribe any significance to these doojiggers, surely you won't mind if I appropriate them? 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §75/4 ‘Gadget’..dojigger. 1953S. Bellow Adventures A. March xvi. 345 It certainly was odd what mechanisms you saw all over Mexico..British and Belgian doo-jiggers, Manchester trolleys or poodle locomotives. 1966T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 iv. 97 The extra little doojigger sort of coming out of the bell. 1976New Yorker 26 Apr. 60/2 To her sweetly serene public matronliness she would add this aura of romance... I'm not sure she meant it—it was just a bargaining do-jigger. |