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Great Expectations vocabulary
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jiggered
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Definition:1. exhausted2. [Britain] euphemistically used in place of damned, as in "I'll be damned"
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“Well, then,” said he, “I'm jiggered if I don't see you home!”
This penalty of being jiggered was a favorite supposititious case of his. He attached no definite meaning to the word that I am aware of, but used it, like his own pretended Christian name, to affront mankind, and convey an idea of something savagely damaging.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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"Well," said Mr. Hobbs, "I'll be—jiggered!"
This was an exclamation he always used when he was very much astonished or excited. He could think of nothing else to say just at that puzzling moment.
Frances Burnett. Little Lord Fountleroy
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“The Marquis de Saint-Loup-en-Bray! I’ll be jiggered!” he had exclaimed, using the oath which was with him the strongest indication of social deference.
Marcel Proust. In Search Of Lost Time [volume 2]
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Bowsing nowt but claretwine. Garn! Have a glint, do. Gum, I’m jiggered. And been to barber he have. Too full for words.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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