gagger

They decorate copper or brass vessel called "gagger" with diyas (clay lamps) and fill them with mustard oil and light them.

He still has critics who believe his one Grand Slam title, Wimbledon 1992, was the result of one sweet draw and a final against Goran Ivanisevic, a more accomplished gagger than Agassi.

Indeed, he was a consumate story-teller, but as far as his account of his naval service in WWII in particular goes, any old salt would have regarded him, at best, as a 'rum gagger'.