Jerrybuild vs Jerrybuilt - What's the difference?
jerrybuild | jerrybuilt |
To assemble a project in a hasty, low-quality manner, especially when cheap, low-quality and/or inappropriate materials are used.
To assemble a structure in such an unsafe manner that it is doomed to collapse.
To repair a structure in one of the above manners.
Of or pertaining to a shoddily built structure.
Anything that is ill-constructed.
As a verb jerrybuild
is to assemble a project in a hasty, low-quality manner, especially when cheap, low-quality and/or inappropriate materials are used.As an adjective jerrybuilt is
of or pertaining to a shoddily built structure.jerrybuild
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Usage notes
This term refers only to inanimate objects. Devices built or repaired in the above manner are said to be jerryrigged.jerrybuilt
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Adjective
(head)- The whole operation was jerrybuilt from the beginning, and thus was doomed to failure.
