jerry
see also: Jerry
Pronunciation
Jerry
Pronunciation
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see also: Jerry
Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈdʒɛɹi/
jerry (plural jerries)
- (British, slang) A chamber pot.
- 1976, Angela Carter, ‘The Mother Lode’, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage 2013, p. 3:
- We used chamber-pots a good deal – ‘jerries’ – cause of much hilarity doe to the hostilities.
- 1976, Angela Carter, ‘The Mother Lode’, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage 2013, p. 3:
- (chamber pot) See Thesaurus:chamber pot
jerry (not comparable)
- (dated) Jerry-built.
- 1889, Alfred Thomas Story, A book of vagrom men and vagrant thoughts, p. 57:
- If a man builds a jerry-house, he has a jerry conscience; and there are a lot of consciences of that description going about.
- 1889, Alfred Thomas Story, A book of vagrom men and vagrant thoughts, p. 57:
jerry (plural jerries)
- (racial slur) Alternative letter-case form of Jerry#English|Jerry: a German.
- (a German) See German
Jerry
Pronunciation
- IPA: /d͡ʒɛɹi/
- A male given name.
- 1970, Santha Rama Rau, The Adventuress, p. 157:
- ..."I, incidentally, am Jeremy Wilson, and anyone who abbreviates that to 'Jerry' does so at unspeakable peril."
"Oh really?" Kay asked. "Why?"
"Well, just a wartime hangover. We used to call the Germans 'Jerries'."
"I don't know much about the German war."
- ..."I, incidentally, am Jeremy Wilson, and anyone who abbreviates that to 'Jerry' does so at unspeakable peril."
- 1970, Santha Rama Rau, The Adventuress, p. 157:
- A female given name.
- An unincorporated community in Asotin County, Washington
jerry (plural Jerries)
- Alternative letter-case form of jerry: a chamber pot
- (UK, US, ethnic slur, dated) A personification of the German people.
jerry (plural Jerries)
- (British, US, ethnic slur, dated) A German, particularly a male German.
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