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▪ I. jerry, n.1|ˈdʒɛrɪ|
[Familiar variant of the proper name Jeremy or Jeremiah (in Ireland treated as equivalent to Diarmaid). Variously applied; mostly in slang or vulgar speech.]
1. A machine for shearing cloth.
1883Almondbury & Huddersfield Gloss., Jerry, the common name of a machine for finishing cloth, by which all the rough portions are removed. 1885Taylor's Patent No. 2784 (title) Jerrys or machines for shearing fabrics.
2. Printers' slang. The noise made by beating chases, etc., on an apprentice finishing his time, or on other occasions.
1888Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 68. 1894 D. C. Murray in My First Bk. 196 The compositors performed what they called a ‘jerry’ in the blunderer's honour.
3. Short for jerry-shop (a contraction, it is said, of Tom-and-Jerry-shop, from the cant name of a mixture of liquors): A low beer-house.
1851–61Mayhew Lond. Labour II. 255 (Farmer) An advance of 5/. made to him by the keeper of a beer-shop, or, as he called it, a jerry. 1873Slang Dict., Jerry shop, a beer-house. Contraction of ‘Tom and Jerry’. 18..Carlyle in Froude Life (Cent.), A worse than jerry-shop over the way raged like Bedlam or Erebus.
4. Short for jerry hat: A round felt hat.
1841Punch I. 98 Those unassuming castors designated ‘Jerrys’. 1851Illustr. Catal. Gt. Exhib. 275 Showing the manufacture of felt caps or jerries..Finished felt cap or jerry. 1865Sat. Rev. 4 Feb. 146/1 Large light whiskers, a jerry hat, and green cutaway coat.
5. Short for jerry-builder.
1890in Cent. Dict.
6. Comb. jerry-come-tumble, jerry-go-nimble, a tumbler, an antic, a performer (equestrian or other); also transf.; jerrycummumble, jerry-mumble vbs. trans., to shake or tumble about; jerry-sneak, a mean sneaking fellow, a hen-pecked husband. See also jerry-builder, etc.
1823Scott Quentin D. xiv, I [a hangman] never quarrel with my customers—my *jerry-come-tumbles, my merry dancers.
1785Grose Dict. Vulg. Tongue, *Jerrycummumble, to shake, towzle, or tumble about.
1876T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd viii, They took me..into a large *jerry-go-nimble show, where there were women-folk riding round.
1721Cibber Rival Fool iii, I'gad I'll fetch one then, shall *jerrymumble you.
1764Foote Mayor of G. (Dram. Pers.), *Jerry Sneak, a henpecked husband. 1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 223 A little insignificant, perking, sharp-featured man, with a Jerry-Sneak expression in his pale whey-face. 1844W. H. Maxwell Sports & Adv. Scotl. xxviii. (1855) 226 A..landlady..was mated to a Jerry Sneak.
▪ II. jerry, n.3 slang.|ˈdʒɛrɪ|
[Prob. abbrev. of jeroboam.]
A chamber-pot.
[1827W. Maginn Whitehall ii. iv. 140 The naval officer..came into the Clarendon for a Jerry [= jeroboam] of punch. 1850Sessions Papers Cent. Criminal Court (Surrey cases) May 124, I went into the jerry [= water-closet], but they had got there before me. ]1859Hotten Dict. Slang 53 Jerry, a chamber utensil. 1932J. Cary Aissa Saved xvii. 96 A thin handsome young man carrying a tin jerry in his hand and a broken kettle among the tatters on his back. 1939‘G. Orwell’ Coming Up for Air iv. vi. 271 A bed not yet made and a jerry under the bed. 1968Canad. Antiques Collector Dec. 10/1 Young English ladies and gentlemen were beginning to find it offensive to have the old man keep a jerry in the sideboard.
▪ III. jerry, n.4 Austral. and N.Z. slang.|ˈdʒɛrɪ|
[Cf. jerry a.2 and v.]
Phr. to take a jerry (to): to investigate and understand (something), to ‘tumble’ to (something).
1919W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 30 Take a jerry, change (for the better) one's course of conduct. 1937Partridge Dict. Slang 437/1 Jerry,..a recognition, discovery, ‘tumble’. 1969Landfall XXIII. 328 It was time this country—ah! Took a jerry to itself. Ha ha.
▪ IV. ˈjerry, a.1
[prob. short for jerry-built.]
Constructed unsubstantially of bad materials.
1882Lanc. Gloss., Jerry, bad, defective, and deceptive;..a jerry building is one that is badly built, although it may look well outwardly. 1892Ld. Egerton in Times 31 Aug. 9/4 A jerry canal would never have commanded the confidence of the public. 1899Westm. Gaz. 6 Apr. 4/3 No matter how jerry the main structure of a house may be, if it is nicely decorated and finished inside..they [the public] will rent or buy it readily.
So ˈjerryism, jerry-building.
1885Peterhead Sentinel 24 June, The cheap jerryism of the building yards. 1885Aberdeen Jrnl. 30 Dec., The Penedo..broke in two and foundered in a couple of minutes. This..is a very violent illustration of jerryism.
▪ V. jerry, a.2 U.S. slang.|ˈdʒɛrɪ|
[Origin unknown.]
Phr. to be (or get) jerry (on, on to, to): to be aware (of); to be ‘wise’ (to); to understand.
1908K. McGaffey Sorrows of Show Girl 200 She accepted the attentions of the comedian which his wife was not supposed to be jerry to. 1921Adventure (U.S.) 18 May 25/1 I've got a strong hunch that thousand bucks is all stowed away, neat as pie, in the pendulum box o' that clock. I'm wise, Kid; I'm jerry. 1926Flynn's 16 Jan. 639/1, I know that th' fly was jerry because he gave me th' once over as I was comin' out. 1942Berry & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §149/7 Know; be aware of, be hep,—jerry,—on,—onto,—wise to. Ibid. §149/12 Knowing; cognizant; aware of,..jerry.
▪ VI. jerry, v. slang (chiefly Austral. and N.Z.).|ˈdʒɛrɪ|
[Cf. jerry n.4]
intr. To understand, realize; to ‘tumble’ to something.
1917Digger 4/3 The excuse was so full of Mer(r)it that the officer failed to ‘Jerry’ to it. 1918Chrons. N.Z.E.F. 21 June 221/1 Unless the sergeant jerries to your lurk. 1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 131 Jerry, to, to understand, e.g., ‘Do you Jerry it, man?’ 1959G. Slatter Gun in my Hand viii. 91 Tried to cut me out with me sheila. Hadn't jerried to it before. |