jerk

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English

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k

Etymology 1

Probably from Middle English yerk (“sudden motion”) and Middle English yerkid (“tightly pulled”), from Old English ġearc (“ready, active, quick”) and Old English ġearcian (“to prepare, make ready, procure, furnish, supply”). Cognate with Scots yerk (“to jerk”). Related also to English yare.

Alternative forms

Noun

jerk (plural jerks)

  1. A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body.
  2. A quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
    When I yell "OK," give the mooring line a good jerk!
  3. (Canada, US, slang, derogatory) A person with unlikable or obnoxious qualities and behavior, typically mean, self-centered, or disagreeable.
    I finally fired him, because he was being a real jerk to his customers, even to some of the staff.
    You really are a jerk sometimes.
  4. (US, slang, derogatory) A dull or stupid person.
  5. (physics, engineering) The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time.
  6. (obsolete) A soda jerk.
  7. (weightlifting) A lift in which the weight is taken with a quick motion from shoulder height to a position above the head with arms fully extended and held there for a brief time.
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Verb

jerk (third-person singular simple present jerks, present participle jerking, simple past and past participle jerked)

  1. (intransitive) To make a sudden uncontrolled movement.
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  2. (transitive) To give a quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
  3. (US, slang, vulgar) To masturbate.
  4. (obsolete) To beat, to hit.
  5. (obsolete) To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand.
    to jerk a stone
  6. (usually transitive, weightlifting) To lift using a jerk.
  7. (obsolete) To flout with contempt.
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Etymology 2

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From American Spanish charquear, from charqui, from Quechua ch'arki.

Noun

jerk (uncountable)

  1. (Caribbean, Jamaica) A rich, spicy Jamaican marinade.
    • 2016, Fodor's Essential Caribbean, Fodor's Travel, →ISBN:
      Sunshine ranks high in the island's greates burger debate, while the chicken egg rolls with mango chutney and jerk mayo and fabulous fish tacos elevate pub grub to an art.
  2. (Caribbean, Jamaica) Meat (or sometimes vegetables) cured by jerking, in which it is coated in spices and slow-cooked over a fire or grill traditionally composed of green pimento wood positioned over burning coals; charqui.
    Jerk chicken is a local favorite.
Translations

Verb

jerk (third-person singular simple present jerks, present participle jerking, simple past and past participle jerked)

  1. To cure (meat) by cutting it into strips and drying it, originally in the sun.
    • 1954, Wallace Stegner, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 37:
      Snow stalled him in the timber; his food was all but gone when he managed to kill an antelope and jerk a supply of venison.
    • 2011, Dominic Smith, Bright and Distant Shores, page 106:
      The Lemakot in the north strangled widows and threw them into the cremation pyres of their dead husbands. If they defeated potential invaders the New Irish hanged the vanquished from banyan trees, flensed their windpipes, removed their heads, left their intestines to jerk in the sun.
    • 2016, Fodor's Travel Guides, Fodor's Essential Caribbean, Fodor's Travel, →ISBN:
      This longtime West End eatery prepares chicken the way locals like it: curried, fried, jerked, and baked.
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French

Etymology

From English.

Pronunciation

Noun

jerk m (plural jerks)

  1. jerk (dance)

Further reading

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *jьkrà.

Noun

jerk m

  1. roe

Further reading

  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “jerk”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “jerk”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Manx

Verb

jerk (verbal noun jerkal, past participle jerkit)

  1. to expect

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
jerk yerk n'yerk
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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