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Jerry sb. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1901, rev. 2025. Jerry sb. [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   1.  A machine for shearing cloth.

2 1883.  Almondbury & Huddersfield Gloss., Jerry, the common name of a machine for finishing cloth, by which all the rough portions are removed.

3 1885.  Taylor’s Patent No. 2784. (title), Jerrys or machines for shearing fabrics.

4   2.  Printers’ slang. The noise made by beating chases, etc., on an apprentice finishing his time, or on other occasions.

5 1888.  Jacobi, Printers’ Vocab., 68.

6 1894.  D. C. Murray, in My First Bk., 196. The compositors performed what they called a ‘jerry’ in the blunderer’s honour.

7   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.

8 1851–61.  Mayhew, 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.

9 1873.  Slang Dict., Jerry shop, a beer-house. Contraction of ‘Tom and Jerry.’

10 1858.  Carlyle, Lett., in Froude, Life in Lond. (1884), II. xxiv. 223 (Cent.). A worse than jerry-shop close over the way raged like Bedlam or Erebus.

11   4.  Short for jerry hat: A round felt hat.

12 1841.  Punch, I. 98/2. Those unassuming castors designated ‘Jerrys.’

13 1851.  Illustr. Catal. Gt. Exhib., 275. Showing the manufacture of felt caps or jerries … Finished felt cap or jerry.

14 1865.  Sat. Rev., 4 Feb., 146/1. Large light whiskers, a jerry hat, and green cutaway coat.

15   5.  Short for JERRY-BUILDER.

16 1890.  in Cent. Dict.

17   6.  Comb. Jerry-come-tumble, Jerry-go-nimble, a tumbler, an antic, a performer (equestrian or other); also transf.; Jerrycummumble, Jerrymumble vbs. trans., to shake or tumble about; Jerry-sneak, a mean sneaking fellow, a hen-pecked husband. See also JERRY-BUILDER, etc.

18 1823.  Scott, Quentin D., xiv. I [a hangman] never quarrel with my customers—my *jerry-come-tumbles, my merry dancers.

19 1785.  Grose, Dict. Vulg. Tongue, *Jerrycummumble, to shake, towzle, or tumble about.

20 1876.  T. Hardy, Far fr. Madding Crowd, viii. They took me … into a large *jerry-go-nimble show, where there were women-folk riding round.

21 1721.  Cibber, Rival Fool, III. I’gad I’ll fetch one then, shall *jerrymumble you.

22 1764.  Foote, Mayor of G. (Dram. Pers.), *Jerry Sneak, a henpecked husband.

23 1824.  Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. I. (1863), 223. A little insignificant, perking, sharp-featured man, with a Jerry-Sneak expression in his pale whey-face.

24 1844.  W. H. Maxwell, Sports & Adv. Scotl., xxviii. (1853), 226, note. An Irish landlady … was mated to a Jerry Sneak.

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