jigger in English
The newly-diagnosed disease causes fingers to turn white and numb as a result of using hand-held vibrating tools such as pneumatic drills and jigger picks.
Feldstein mentions some revenue-neutral tax jiggering that could be stimulative, but that sounds like fairly ordinary tax policy stuff to me.
Use "jigger" in a sentence
1. I contracted jigger, or sandflea, disease, a form of typhus.
2. It is sometimes also called jigger, jigger flea, or, improperly, chigger, although a chigger is a mite, a different kind of animal pest. Chigoes are smaller than common fleas but otherwise resemble them.
3. Also known as the Jigger, the Chigoe is a small parasitic flea found in South America & the Caribbean
4. Tunga penetrans, sometimes called the ‘jigger flea’ or Chigoe, is common in tropical Africa and tropical America
5. Also known as the Jigger, the Chigoe is a small parasitic flea found in South America & the Caribbean
6. The flea has many common names including, Chigoe flea, jigger, nigua, pico, sand flea, and bicho de pie (bug of the foot).
7. Chigoe (chĬg´ō) or jigger, small parasitic flea [1] (Tunga penetrans) of the tropics and subtropics, including the S United States [2]
8. The 'jigger' or short-rest used in billiards is also often called a 'gadget'; and the name has been applied by local platelayers to the 'gauge' used to test the accuracy of their work.
9. Tunga penetrans: ( tŭng'gă pen'ĕ-tranz ), A member of the flea family, Tungidae , commonly known as chigger flea, sand flea, Chigoe, or jigger; the minute female penetrates the skin, frequently under the toenails; as she becomes distended with eggs to about pea size, a painful ulcer with inflammation develops at the site