jury-rig
See also: jury rig
English
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdʒʊə.ɹi ɹɪɡ/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈdʒʊɹ.i ɹɪɡ/, /ˈdʒɛɹ.i ɹɪɡ/
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Etymology 1
[edit]From jury (“for temporary use, makeshift”, adjective) + rig. Likely modelled after jurymast.
The phrase jury-rigged has been in use since at least 1788.[1] The adjectival use of jury (“makeshift or temporary”), has been said to date from at least 1616, when according to the 1933 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, it appeared in John Smith's A Description of New England.[1] It appeared in Smith's more extensive The General History of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles published in 1624.[2]
Verb
[edit]jury-rig (third-person singular simple present jury-rigs, present participle jury-rigging, simple past and past participle jury-rigged)
- (nautical, transitive) To build an improvised rigging or assembly from whichever materials are available.
- 1840, [Frederick] Marryat, Poor Jack. […], London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, […], →OCLC:
- The next day it moderated, and the day after the weather was quite fine, and the sea had gone down. We recovered our spirits, the more so as we heard no more of the cat; and having jury-rigged her aft, we steered our course with a light breeze.
- (transitive) To create a makeshift, ad hoc solution from resources at hand.
- Synonyms: jerrybuild, kludge out, MacGyver
- 1992, Bruce Sterling, The Hacker Crackdown […] [1], Bantam Books, →ISBN:
- In fact, he and his friends had kicked the idea around on the "Black Ice" board, much as they had discussed many other nifty notions, such as building personal flame-throwers and jury-rigging fistfulls of blasting-caps.
- 2025 May 22, Matteo Wong, “OpenAI’s Ambitions Just Became Crystal Clear”, in The Atlantic[2]:
- Tech behemoths are jury-rigging AI features into their products to avoid being disrupted—but these rollouts, and Apple’s in particular, have been disastrous, giving dangerous health advice, butchering news summaries, and generally crowding and slowing user experiences.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to make an improvised rigging
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to create a makeshift solution
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[edit]Noun
[edit]- (nautical) An improvised rigging.
- 1904–1906, Joseph Conrad, The Mirror of the Sea, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, published October 1906, →OCLC:
- […] the sickly, disheartening feeling which the men of some “overdue” ships that come into harbour at last under a jury-rig must have felt, combated, and overcome in the faithful discharge of their duty.
Translations
[edit]improvised rigging
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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]jury-rig (third-person singular simple present jury-rigs, present participle jury-rigging, simple past and past participle jury-rigged)
- (slang, transitive) To rig a jury; to engage in jury tampering, to improperly influence jurors, or the selection of jurors, such that they deliver a certain verdict.
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[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Oxford English Dictionary, Volume V, H-K, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1933, page 637, corrected reprinting 1966
- ^ Smith, Captaine Iohn (1624), The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles, London: Michael Sparkes, (2006, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) digital republication), p.223. (Online edition) Note that in the orthography of Early Modern English, 'J' was often written as 'I', thus the actual quote from Smith (1624) reads, "...we had re-accommodated a Iury-mast to returne for Plimoth...", corrected for modern parlance, "...we had re-accommodated a Jury-mast to return for Plymouth..."