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Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - jerry-built

 
 

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Jerry-built

jerry-built
If you describe houses or blocks of flats as jerry-built, you are critical of the fact that they have been built very quickly and cheaply, without much care for safety or quality. ...jerry-built equipment... The place is a bit jerry-built. ADJ c darkgreen]disapproval
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1.
   adjective  Etymology: origin unknown  Date: 1869  1. built cheaply and unsubstantially  2. carelessly or hastily put together ...
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2.
  1. построенный на скорую руку, непрочно, кое-как ...
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  adj. построенный на скорую руку, кое-как ...
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4.
  {adj.} 1. Built poorly or carelessly of cheap materials; easily broken. * /That jerry-built cabin will blow apart in a strong wind./ 2. Done without careful preparation or thought; planned too quickly. * /When the regular television program didn't come on, a jerry-built program was substituted at the last minute./ ...
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5.
  - 1869, Eng. dial. jerry "bad, defective," a pejorative use of the male nickname Jerry, or from naut. slang jury, used of all sorts of makeshift and inferior objects, which is probably ult. from O.Fr. ajurie "help, relief," from L. adjutare (see aid). Jerry was British Army slang for German in World War I; said to be from the shape of the Ger. helmet, which was like a jerry, British slang for "chamber pot" (1827). ...
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