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Definition of Jerry-builder
1. Noun. Someone who builds cheap buildings out of poor materials on speculation for a quick profit.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jerry-builder
Literary usage of Jerry-builder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1901)
"In those days it was still written as a separate word ; but jerry builder and
jerry building naturally suggested jerry- build, which is exemplified in 1890. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"The Gaelic word also signifies wretched, miserable, in which sense it is strictly
applicable to the jerry- builder, and to the contemptible characters ..."
3. Practical Housing by John Sutton Nettlefold (1908)
"There is no power whatever given to Local Authorities to discriminate between
the honest builder and the jerry builder. The holding up of land near large ..."
4. Transactions of the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain by Sanitary Institute of Great Britain (1884)
"Why do not the lower middle class combine in self-defence and crush their present
oppressors the pothouse politician and his ally the jerry builder, ..."
5. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"... twelve acres of " nobly-timbered park," given over—of course, like so much
else in that once leafy suburb—to the untender mercies of the Jerry Builder. ..."
6. Conferences on Books and Men by Henry Charles Beeching (1900)
"The friends of the jerry-builder, confident that he has time on his side, ...
The jerry-builder may be right; another generation may see the hill ..."
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