Jerry Lynch

noun

A pickled pig's head.

Meanings

noun
  1. IrelandUKobsoleteslangA pickled pig's head.

    It is now about the foulest specimen extant of that kind of backslum or alley where, a generation back, according to Hood, pigs and Irish were wont to rally. The pigs, except in the form of hocks, "Jerry Lynch" heads, and other portions of bacon, have been removed by Act of Parliament […]

    1875, Henry Sampson, A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times, page 392
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