jerky

jerk·y ¹  (jûrk)

adj. jerk·i·er, jerk·i·est

1. Characterized by jerks or jerking: a jerky train ride.

2. Slang Foolish; silly: jerky ideas about saving money.

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jerki·ly adv.

jerki·ness n.

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jerk·y ²  (jûrk)

n.

Meat cured by jerking. Also called charqui.

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[Alteration of charqui.]

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jerky¹

adj jerkier, jerkiest

characterized by jerks; spasmodic

jerkily  adv

jerkiness  n

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jerky²

n

(Cookery) another word for jerk² [2]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	jerky - meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun jerked meat, jerk meat - the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food beef jerky - strips of dried beef biltong - meat that is salted and cut into strips and dried in the sun
Adj.	1.	jerky - lacking a steady rhythm; "an arrhythmic heartbeat" arrhythmic, jerking unsteady - subject to change or variation; "her unsteady walk"; "his hand was unsteady as he poured the wine"; "an unsteady voice"
	2.	jerky - marked by abrupt transitions; "choppy prose" choppy sudden - happening without warning or in a short space of time; "a sudden storm"; "a sudden decision"; "a sudden cure"
	3.	jerky - having or revealing stupidity; "ridiculous anserine behavior"; "a dopey answer"; "a dopey kid"; "some fool idea about rewriting authors' books" dopey, dopy, gooselike, goosey, goosy, foolish, anserine colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech stupid - lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity

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jerky

adjective bumpy, rough, jolting, jumpy, shaky, bouncy, uncontrolled, twitchy, fitful, spasmodic, convulsive, tremulous He stood abruptly and left the room at a fast, jerky walk.
flowing, smooth, gliding, frictionless

Translations

jerky [ˈdʒɜːkɪ] ADJ (jerkier (compar) (jerkiest (superl))) [movement, motion] → brusco; [speech] → entrecortado, vacilante

jerky [ˈdʒɜː^rki] adj [movement] → saccadé(e)

jerky

adj (+er)

→ ruckartig; way of speaking → abgehackt; a jerky ride over cobbles/in an old bus → eine holprige Fahrt über Kopfsteinpflaster/in einem alten Bus

(inf: = foolish) → bekloppt (inf)

jerky [ˈdʒɜːkɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (motion, speech) → convulso/a, a scatti; (ride) → pieno/a di scossoni

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jerky [ˈdʒɜːkɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (motion, speech) → convulso/a, a scatti; (ride) → pieno/a di scossoni