Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

jerrybag

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: jer-ry-bag
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A woman who consorted with the Germans during the Second World War.

Slang

Example Sentences

"I said, ‘Raymond and Horace are killed, and my lovely Liza is a jerry-bag.’"
"‘I saw you smiling at those Jerries. I was in the bloody BEF. We saw girls like you in France. A Jerrybag, are you, is that the story?’"

Etymology

From Jerry + bag.

Usage

Slang

Inflected Forms

jerrybags (plural)

Questions

What does jerrybag mean?: A woman who consorted with the Germans during the Second World War.
Where does jerrybag come from?: From Jerry + bag.

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