jerry-built
adjective
[ ˈdʒɛrɪbɪlt ]
• badly or hastily built with materials of poor quality.
Similar:
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,
tacky,
junky,
ropy,
rubbish,
grotty,
farkakte,
Origin:
mid 19th century: 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).
