Former Louisville mayor and new White House aide jerry Abramson could be the man who brings Obama and Mitch McConnell together.
There is, for example, the Seinfeld episode where jerry, feeling flush with cash, buys his parents a Caddy.
Sen. jerry Moran, a Republican from Kansas, was among the first politicians to call for an Ebola czar.
Mitchell has close ties with Sen. jerry Tillman, the lawmaker who sponsored the bill.
“[Amazon] should be showcasing ‘Tom and jerry’ among classic movies in a way that gives them cultural context,” he said.
This from jerry Tompkins; you have probably no idea how hungry he was at that moment.
It had seen its best days, jerry thought, and so had he, for that matter.
jerry, you honest tradesman, it wouldn't suit your line of business!
jerry has been my bodyguard on Sunday nights for a long time past and I am used to him.
A carriage with post-horses was ready at the Bank door, and jerry was booted and equipped.
World War I British Army slang for "a German, the Germans," 1919, probably an alteration of German, but also said to be from the shape of the German helmet, which was thought to resemble a jerry, British slang for "chamber pot" (1827), this being probably an abbreviation of jeroboam. Hence jerry-can "5-gallon metal container" (1943), a type first used by German troops in World War II, later adopted by the Allies.
Old English brun "dark, dusky," developing a definite color sense only 13c., from Proto-Germanic *brunaz (cf. Old Norse brunn, Danish brun, Old Frisian and Old High German brun, Dutch bruin, German braun), from PIE *bher- (3) "shining, brown" (cf. Lithuanian beras "brown"), related to *bheros "dark animal" (cf. beaver, bear (n.), and Greek phrynos "toad," literally "the brown animal").
The Old English word also had a sense of "brightness, shining," preserved only in burnish. The Germanic word was adopted into Romanic (e.g. Middle Latin brunus, Italian and Spanish bruno, French brun). Brown Bess, slang name for old British Army flintlock musket, first recorded 1785.
c.1300, "to become brown," from brown (adj.). From 1560s as "to make brown." Related: Browned; browning.
"brown color," c.1600, from brown (adj.).
Old English west "in or toward the west," from Proto-Germanic *wes-t- (cf. Old Norse vestr, Old Frisian, Middle Dutch, Dutch west, Old High German -west, only in compounds, German west), from PIE *wes- (source of Greek hesperos, Latin vesper "evening, west"), perhaps an enlarged form of root *we- "to go down" (cf. Sanskrit avah "downward"), and thus literally "direction in which the sun sets." Cf. also High German dialectal abend "west," literally "evening."
French ouest, Spanish oeste are from English. West used in geopolitical sense from World War I (Britain, France, Italy, as opposed to Germany and Austria-Hungary); as contrast to Communist Russia (later to the Soviet bloc) it is first recorded in 1918. West Indies is recorded from 1550s.
Brown (broun), Michael. Born 1941.
American geneticist. He shared a 1985 Nobel Prize for discoveries related to cholesterol metabolism.
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Opposed to environmental preservation and restoration •The opposite of green: The chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers is judged brown, rather than green, on the issue of timetables for climate control (1990s+)
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also brown-hole To do anal intercourse; bugger, bunghole (1930s+)