jerry-built
Adjective
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Adjective
jerry-built
- Built cheaply and shoddily.
- 1859, August 6, Albany Fonblanque, Junr., Once a Week ↗, article Sebastopol Villa:
- He had tried other building speculations, had run up other “jerry-built” houses, and had failed utterly, hopelessly.
- 1859, L. B. E., Cottoniron; a Poem ↗, part 1, canto 3:
- Reigns supreme for jerry-built
Houses tricked out with gorgeous gilt,
Like cakes o' gingerbread, that crumble,
And in another century 'll tumble
- Reigns supreme for jerry-built
- 1859, August 6, Albany Fonblanque, Junr., Once a Week ↗, article Sebastopol Villa:
- jerry-build
- jerry-builder / jerrybuilder
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