jer-bear

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.90 in modern English

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name

Informal

""Sorry about that, Jer-bear." She gave his shoulder a squeeze, picking up a large brown envelope tucked in the back of the book."
"Jeremy DeLongpre: Are you okay? Richard DeLongpre: I'm sorry. Come here. No, no, pop up here, Jer-bear."
"I wish you could relent.” “Just love the early morning sunshine, Jer-bear.” His face clouds. “Please explain this name to me. 'Jer-bear'?” “Well, there's this cartoon and there are these bears, right?” “Okay. That explains part of it.”"

Blend of Jeremy + bear or Jerry + bear, chosen for the rhyme, which echoes the precedent of Care Bear.

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