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Jerky   /dʒˈərki/   Listen
adjective
jerky  adj.  
1.
Moving by jerks and starts; characterized by abrupt transitions; as, a jerky vehicle; a jerky style.
2.
Foolish; ridiculous; stupid. (slang)


noun
jerky  n.  Meat, especially beef, that has been cut in strips and dried; meat that has been jerked; see first jerk, v.; as, beef jerky





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"Jerky" Quotes from Famous Books



... got is meat," Bill told her, "except a little jerky; but there's plenty of that in the woods if we can just find it. And I don't intend to delay about that. If the snow gets much deeper, we'd have to have snowshoes to ...
— The Snowshoe Trail • Edison Marshall
... of the red squirrel are quick, sharp, jerky, machine-like. He does nothing slowly or gently; everything with a snap and a jerk. His progression is a series of interrupted sallies. When he pauses on the stone wall he faces this way and that with a sudden jerk; ...
— The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers • John Burroughs
... dropped in to speak to her mother and her—fellows who didn't ever come down town, but I could tell they knew who I was by the way they ignored me. It exasperated me to a pitch of fury, that coldly insolent air of theirs—a jerky nod at me without so much as a glance, and no notice of me when they were leaving my box beyond a faint, supercilious smile as they passed with eyes straight ahead. I knew what it meant, what they were thinking—that ...
— The Deluge • David Graham Phillips
... end of the week. Some of them fight more 'n they work, but I guess you won't be that kind," she concluded, with an unctuous smile, displaying two rows of false teeth. Then, with a quick, nervous, jerky gait, she hopped up the flight of rough plank stairs, threw open a door, and ushered me into the bedlam noises of the "loft," where, amid the roar of machinery and the hum of innumerable voices, I was ...
— The Long Day - The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself • Dorothy Richardson
... road, he saw a man walking in the same direction in which he was going; a young man, slight and wiry, walking with quick, jerky strides. ...
— The Wooing of Calvin Parks • Laura E. Richards


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