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

short See also:form of the name See also:Jeremiah, applied to various See also:common See also:objects, and more particularly to a See also:machine for See also:finishing See also: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 See also:foundation for the assertion that this expression was occasioned by the See also:work of a See also:firm of See also:Liverpool builders named Jerry.

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