Originally Posted By: Faldage
Originally Posted By: The Pook
Where does the term Jerry-built come from? Is it from the English Tom & Jerry shop (a second hand shop), or is it pejorative of Germans in World War One?


It's mentioned in my link above for jury rigged. Dave Wilton says it's unknown.

Thanks, didn't look at that earlier. That at least definitively answers one half of my question - it obviously has nothing to do with anti-German sentiment since it dates to at least 1869. I suspect the Tom and Jerry shop connection.