Where does the term jerried come from? It's an Australian slang term that means 'realised'
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Where does the term jerried come from? It's an Australian slang term that means 'realised'
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Oxford Dictionaries has the best explanation:
The full OED (unsurprisingly) tells the same story, but it's worth checking out if you can for the references. Here's its earliest attestations for "jerry":
And this is its earliest attestation for the American expression "to be jerry (to)":