jerry
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Is jerry a Scrabble word?
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Definition
name (English)
1. (UK, US, ethnic slur, dated) A personification of the German people.Examples: "Phipps went on: “One of our chaps, out on a reccy over the Bulgarian front, thought he saw something in the snow. Something fishy. He dropped down to have a dekko and nearly had kittens. What d'you think? Jerry's got a mass of stuff there—tanks, guns, lorries, every sort of heavy armament. All camouflaged. White.”"; "[…] chucking your towel on the sunbed and making sure Jerry doesn't get there first."UKUSdatedethnicslur
noun (English)
1. (British, US, ethnic slur, dated) A German, particularly a male German.Examples: "But Robert had been cheeriness itself, had told them to buck up and think of England, reminding them that moaning wasn’t going to beat the Jerries."Synonyms: Boche, Fritz, KrautBritishUSdatedethnicslur
noun (English)
1. (UK, Ireland, slang) A chamber pot.Examples: "We used chamber-pots a good deal – ‘jerries’ – cause of much hilarity doe to the hostilities."Synonyms: chamber potIrelandUKslang
adj (English)
1. (dated) Jerry-built.Examples: "If a man builds a jerry-house, he has a jerry conscience; and there are a lot of consciences of that description going about."datednot-comparable
noun (English)
1. (ethnic slur) Alternative letter-case form of Jerry (“a German”).Synonyms: Germanalt-ofethnicslur
noun (English)
1. (UK, thieves' cant, obsolete) A watch (timepiece).Examples: "Watch stealing, or jerry getting, as the thieving fraternity designate the operation, is carried on to a considerable extent all the year round."; "R. Austin Freeman, A Savant's Vendetta 'Do you know a jerry when you sees one — a red 'un, mind you?' […] The fellow looked furtively at the door and then, diving into an inner pocket, pulled out a handsome gold watch with a massive chain attached, exhibited it for a moment and then dropped it back."UKobsolete
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Definition source: Wiktionary