See Also: excrescent(dictionary)
Jerry(1)(dictionary)
Tom and Jerry(dictionary)
jerry(6)(dictionary)
jerry(5)(dictionary)
jerry(4)(dictionary)
jerry(3)(dictionary)
Tom-and-Jerry(dictionary)
Jerry(2)(dictionary)
jerry-built(dictionary)

jerry-built (oh) and excrescent (iou)


jerry-built (oh)



built cheaply, quickly, and badly

excrescent (iou)



excrescent adjective. L15.
[Latin excrescent-: see EXCRESCENCE, -ENT.]
Increased by addition, greater; constituting more than the normal quantity. Now rare. L15.
That grows out naturally. Now rare or obsolete. M17.
Growing abnormally; forming or constituting an excrescence; redundant, superfluous. M17.
Philology. Of a sound or letter in a word: due merely to euphony, not to derivation. L19.
excre'scential adjective of the Nature of an excrescence; redundant, superfluous: M19.