JERRY-BUILD

PRONUNCIATION: (JER-ee-bild)

MEANING: verb tr.: To build cheaply and sloppily.

ETYMOLOGY: Back-formation from jerry-built. Further derivation unknown. Earliest documented use: 1832.
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JERRY-BUILT - made in Germany in WWI

JERSY-BUILD - to make left-handed (if you come from NYC)

MERRY-BUILD - to construct in Santa's factory at the North Pole