jerry-lord
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.20 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative letter-case form of jerry-lord.
Example Sentences
- "More than once I have entered rooms at twelve o'clock noon, where half-a-dozen of prostitutes were drinking with as many men. Sometimes they listened with some attention to what I said; but when the “jerry lord" saw that his ‘”craft was in danger,” he began to order the "Scotch tormentor" off."
- "Tho learned gentleman admitted that there was 'a great gulf" between the Jerry-lord and the Gin-spinner, between the Aristocracy of Alcohol and the Democracy of Drink. To sell beer alone, is low and degrading—but to sell Beer with Brandy quite respectable and elevating!"
- "While you give 'em your brass for their brown-colour'd suds, They'll call you "free," "easy," and "funny;” […] Then, then will the " Jerry-lord" mask all His nods and his " thank ye's," and cry, " Get thee out! Begone, thou poor penniless rascal !""
- "The subject of this sketch rented a mill, with land sufficient for the keep of his horses and a few cows. But being a boozy sort of a fellow, he hit on the grand idea of becoming a jerry lord, and put over the door for his sign, in flaming letters, " THE MILL TAVERN.""