English-Thai Dictionary

jerry-built

A ที่ สร้าง อย่าง ชั่วคราว และไม่ แข็งแรง  ที่ สร้าง อย่าง ลวกๆ 

 

jerry-built

SL สะเพร่า  ประมาท  ไม่ ระวัง  ลวกๆ  sa-prow

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

JERRY-BUILT

JERRY-BUILT Jer "ry-built `, a.

 

Defn: Built hastily and of bad materials; as, jerry-built houses. [Colloq. Eng. ]

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

jerry-built

jer ry-built |ˈʤɛri ˌbɪlt | ▶adjective badly or hastily built with materials of poor quality. DERIVATIVES jer ry-build er noun, jer ry-build ing noun ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: origin unknown; sometimes said to be from the name of a firm of builders in Liverpool, or to allude to the walls of Jericho, which fell down at the sound of Joshua's trumpets (Josh. 6:20 ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

jerry-built

jerry-built |ˈdʒɛrɪbɪlt | ▶adjective badly or hastily built with materials of poor quality. DERIVATIVES jerry-builder noun, jerry-building noun ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: origin unknown; sometimes said to be from the name of a firm of builders in Liverpool, or to allude to the walls of Jericho, which fell down at the sound of Joshua's trumpets (Josh. 6:20 ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

jerry-built

jerry-built adjective we entered our jerry-built monstrosity in the raft race and won second prize: shoddy, makeshift, badly built, gimcrack, flimsy, insubstantial, rickety, ramshackle, crude, chintzy; inferior, poor-quality, second-rate, third-rate, tinpot, low-grade. ANTONYMS sturdy.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

jerry-built

jerry-built adjective they lived in tents and jerry-built shacks: shoddy, badly built, gimcrack, flimsy, insubstantial, rickety, unstable, ramshackle, crude, carelessly built, thrown together, makeshift, defective, faulty, flawed; inferior, poor-quality, second-rate, third-rate, low-grade, cheap, cheapjack; informal tacky, junky; Brit. informal ropy, rubbish, grotty. ANTONYMS well made, sturdy, substantial.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

jerry-built

j é rry-b ù ilt 形容詞 ｟否定的に ｠〈建物などが 〉安普請 （やすぶしん ）の, ずさんな作りの ; 〈計画などが 〉ずさんな .