A diminutive of the male given names Gerald, Gerard, Jeremy, Jeremiah, Jared, Jerome, Jermaine, Jerrold, or similar male given names.
We stated in our last that the award in this class was sent to Fowler & Vannatta’s Jerry, but this was a mistake which arose from the fact that there were two Jerrys in this class and both of them grade Herefords, one from Benton County, Ind., and one shown by Wallace Libby & Co., Ottawa, Ill. When the awards were made it was announced that Mr. Vannatta’s Jerry was the winner, and that breeder left for his home congratulating himself on the fact of having a winner on the block; […]
A diminutive of the female given names Geraldine or Jerilyn.
A personification of the German people.
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.”
Alternative letter-case form of jerry (“a chamber pot”).
A watch (timepiece).
Watch stealing, or jerry getting, as the thieving fraternity designate the operation, is carried on to a considerable extent all the year round.
Jerry-built.
If a man builds a jerry-house, he has a jerry conscience; and there are a lot of consciences of that description going about.
A clipped form of German popularized during the First World War.
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A chamber pot.
We used chamber-pots a good deal – ‘jerries’ – cause of much hilarity doe to the hostilities.
Alternative letter-case form of Jerry (“a German”).