jerry
IPA: dʒˈɛri
Root Word: Jerry
noun
- A diminutive of the male given names Jeremiah, Jeremy, Jerome, Jared, Jermaine, Jerrold, Gerald, Gerard, or similar male given names.
- A diminutive of the female given names Geraldine or Jerilyn.
- An unincorporated community in Asotin County, Washington, United States; named for early rancher Jerry McGuire.
- (UK, US, ethnic slur, dated) A personification of the German people.
- (Britain, US, ethnic slur, dated) A German, particularly a male German.
- (Britain, slang) A chamber pot.
- Alternative letter-case form of jerry: a chamber pot [(Britain, slang) A chamber pot.]
- (ethnic slur) Alternative letter-case form of Jerry: a German. [A diminutive of the male given names Jeremiah, Jeremy, Jerome, Jared, Jermaine, Jerrold, Gerald, Gerard, or similar male given names.]
adjective
- (dated) Jerry-built.
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Examples of "jerry" in Sentences
- Jerry returns the fish to the bowl.
- Jerry gives him a radish and a carrot.
- Jerry Brown was gasconading last weekend.
- Jerry swipes the goldfish bowl and scrams.
- Jerry opens the door of the basement stairway.
- Jerry speeds to the elevator in the refrigerator.
- Jerry gets all the applause and the curtains fall.
- OMG they are calling jerry deli that place is great.
- As of 2008 Jerry Eversole is the head of the precinct.
- In the story, Jerry's legendary frugality was highlighted.
- Jerry Preston was the prospective investor into the school.
- He was shabbily dressed in a suit of greenish-black and wore what we used to call a jerry hat with a high crown.
- This bidder - "jerry" - defaulted on over $13,000 of domain purchases, and was still allowed to bid in future auctions.
- He and one of our guards then have to heave gallons of water in jerry cans up to the roof of our bathroom to fill the water tank.
- I’d still be thinking the fuel is in jerry cans, so if you hit an obstacle that “must be portaged”, you can offload a bit of weight.
- Check out Gerry Studds too, elected 6 times after they found out what he did, I'd say it but cnn would censor me then, google the name jerry studds.
- the term jerry rigged's been addressed, but as to paddy wagon, somehow most people don't realize it refers to irish people, I only know cuz I live in Boston with tons of irish folk.
- Regardless of the origins of the terms jerry-built and jury-rigged, the fact of the matter is that the term jerry-rigged was used by American troops to describe the shoddy state of German equipment in the last years of the war.