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JERRY

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 330 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JERRY  , a

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short
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form of the name
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Jeremiah, applied to various
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common
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objects, and more particularly to a
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machine for
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finishing
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cloth . The expression " jerry-built " is applied to houses built badly and of inferior materials, and run up by a speculative builder . There seems to be no
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foundation for the assertion that this expression was occasioned by the
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work of a
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firm of
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Liverpool builders named Jerry .

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