Jerry

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɛɹi/
• Rhymes: -ɛri

Diminutive of various (unrelated) names, such as Jeremy, Jerome, Gerald, Jerrold, Gerard. Use in reference to a chamber pot probably derives from jeroboam or Jeroboam (“large bowl; very large wine bottle”).[1]

Jerry

1. A diminutive of the male given names Jeremiah, Jeremy, Jerome, Jerrold, Gerald, Gerard or similar male given names.

   Hello, Jerry!
   Hello, Newman.

   • 1970, Santha Rama Rau, The Adventuress, p. 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."

2. A diminutive of the female given names Geraldine or Jerilyn.
3. A male given name.

Jerry (plural Jerries)

1. Alternative letter-case form of jerry: a chamber pot.

• See Thesaurus:chamber pot

• Geri, Gerri, Gerry
• Jerri

A clipped form of German popularized during the First World War.

• jerry, geri, gerri

Jerry

1. (Britain, US, ethnic slur, dated) A personification of the German people generally.

Jerry (plural Jerries)

1. (Britain, US, ethnic slur, dated) A German, particularly a male German.

Reused during World War II and used since that war to connote lingering animosity or enmity towards Germans or Germany.

• Boche
• Fritz
• Kraut

• jerrycan

From English Jerry.

Jerry

1. a male given name

From English Jerry. First recorded as a Swedish given name in 1906.

Jerry c (genitive Jerrys)

1. A male given name.