Jerry

jerry English Pronunciation en /ˈd͡ʒɛɹi/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Jerry.wav Southern England en ɛɹi 2 Etymology 1 en en y<id:diminutive>. Proper noun + ies en male Gerald,Gerard,Jeremy,Jeremiah,Jared,Jerome,Jermaine,Jerrold,similar male given names. en On the Block. A Grand Display of Meat at the Fat-Stock Show. The Breeder’s Gazette.A Weekly Publication Devoted Exclusively to the Interests of Live-Stock Breeders and General Farmers Who Make Live-Stock Breeding a Leading Feature of Their Business. X 22 (261 overall) Chicago, Ill. James Harvey Sanders & Co.,Publishers, N. W. Cor. La Salle and Washington Sts. 25 November 1886 785 https://books.google.com/books?id=RI45AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA785 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; en 1970 Santha Rama Rau The Adventuress 157 ..."I, incidentally, am Jeremy Wilson, and anyone who abbreviates that to Jerry does so at unspeakable peril.""Oh really?" Kay asked. "Why?""Well, just a wartime hangover. We used to call the Germans 'Jerries'.""I don't know much about the German war." en w:Stephen King; w:Peter Straub The Talisman New York, N.Y. Viking 1984 169–170 https://archive.org/details/talisman000king/page/169/mode/1up 0-670-69199-2 And Jerry would appear, his work-clothes clean and pressed, his thinning rust-red hair combed flat, his glasses round and earnest, and quietly fix whatever was wrong. There was a Mrs. Jerry, who kept the creases sharp and clean in the tan workpants, and several small Jerrys, whom Sawyer & Sloat invariably remembered at Christmas. Jack had been small enough to associate the name Jerry with Tom Cat’s eternal adversary Jerry Mouse, and so imagined that the handyman and Mrs. Jerry and the little Jerrys lived in a giant mouse-hole, accessible by a curved arch cut into a baseboard. en Lawrence Richard Smith Coalition The Map of Who We Are: A Novel American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series 24 Norman, Okla.; London w:University of Oklahoma Press 1997 245 https://archive.org/details/mapofwhowearenov0000smit/page/245/mode/1up 0-8061-2956-5 Maxine grabbed the hair on the top of her head. “No, Jerry, I’m not talking hippy dippy. You’re not hearing me.” / Carla snickered. “I’m going to remember what he just said about nostalgia the next time he tells one of his Brown Beret stories.” She glanced around the table. “You may not know it, but Jerry is a sucker for stories with a moral to them.” / Vizenor shifted in his seat, cleared his throat. Carla looked at the Berkeley writer, startled. “I’m sorry, I forgot there were two Jerrys here. I was referring to the guy at the head of the table—Martinez.” There was uncomfortable laughter, then a long silence as the assembled activists eyed one another and sipped coffee. Jerry Vizenor leaned forward on his elbows and massaged his temples. en Ira Pohl Nested Classes C# by Dissection: The Essentials of C# Programming Boston, Mass. w:Addison-Wesley 2003 249 https://archive.org/details/cbydissectioness0000pohl/page/249/mode/1up 0-201-87667-1 There are many Nancies and Jerries in the world. They get told apart by a further name, such as Nancy Lovelace, or Jerry Turing. en w:Laura Wattenberg Mid-Century America https://books.google.com/books?id=xRwQUKZLby8C&pg=PT778 The Baby Name Wizard: A Magical Method for Finding the Perfect Name for Your Baby 2nd New York, N.Y. w:Broadway Books 2009 978-0-7679-3159-5 If the names we give our children represent our hopes for the future, names like Kathie and Jerry, Darlene and Butch are dreams of contentment. Of course, the generation bestowed with those contented names ended up far from content. The little Kathies and Jerries born in 1950 grew up to be the protesters, free-lovers, and Woodstock attendees of 1969. en female Geraldine,Jerilyn. en unincorporated community co/Asotin County s/Washington c/US ; named for early rancher Jerry McGuire. Alternative forms diminutive of Gerald, Gerard en Gerry Jheri female diminutive en Gerry Geri Gerri Jeri Jerri Jerrie Derived terms en Jer-bear jerrybag Berry Jerry Jerrys Plains Jerry Sneak Jerry World Tom-and-Jerry shop Etymology 2 Noun en jerry a chamber pot. Etymology 3 en German en y<id:diminutive>. Popularized during World War I. Alternative forms en jerry geri gerri Proper noun en UK US ethnic slur dated A personification of the German people. en 2011 1965 w:Olivia Manning Friends And Heroes The Balkan Trilogy Random House 9781446494424 https://books.google.com/books?id=iQKQSHhQ7LUC&pg=PT150&dq=%22a+reccy%22&hl=&cd=4&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22a%20reccy%22&f=false 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? Jerrys got a mass of stuff there—tanks, guns, lorries, every sort of heavy armament. All camouflaged. White.” en 2012 Bill Leckie Penthouse and Pavement chucking your towel on the sunbed and making sure Jerry doesn't get there first. Noun en German en British US ethnic slur dated A German, particularly a male German. en Boche Fritz Kraut en Margaret James The Penny Bangle 2012 Harpenden Choc Lit 43 https://archive.org/details/pennybangle0000jame/page/43/mode/1up 978-1-906931-77-3 But Robert had been cheeriness itself, had told them to buck up and think of England, reminding them that moaning wasn’t going to beat the Jerries. en w:David Walliams Grandpa’s Great Escape 2015 HarperCollins Children’s Books 368 “Yes, Char Wallah! Escaped from Jerry!” announced the old man. “Jerry who?” asked Raj. The boy butted in, “He means the Nazis!” before whispering, “He thinks the war’s still on, remember?” Usage notes Reused during World War II and used since that war to connote lingering animosity or enmity towards Germans or Germany. Derived terms en jerrycan Translations slang: German Fritz German en informal demonyms unisex given names en Collectives People Swedish Etymology From sv en Jerry. First recorded as a Swedish given name in 1906. Proper noun c sv male