| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Jerk.[Websters]
2. To have boobed, sapped, cuckooed, suckered or goofed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To be clotted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To have twitched or wrenched. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To be bloodied or fatted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To be cussed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have startled or jumped. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To have hitched, jounced or jolted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To be cramped. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To be frighted or dreaded.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb jerk.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (jerk) | 1. Pull, or move with a sudden movement; "He turned the handle and jerked the door open".[Wordnet]. 2. Move with abrupt, seemingly uncontrolled motions; "The patient's legs were jerkings".[Wordnet]. 3. Make an uncontrolled, short, jerky motion.[Wordnet]. 4. Jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched.[Wordnet]. 5. Throw or toss with a quick motion; "jerk his head".[Wordnet]. 6. To cut into long slices or strips and dry in the sun; as, jerk beef.[Websters]. 7. To beat; to strike.[Websters]. 8. To give a quick and suddenly arrested thrust, push, pull, or twist, to; to yerk; as, to jerk one with the elbow; to jerk a coat off.[Websters]. 9. To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand; as, to jerk a stone.[Websters]. 10. To make a sudden motion; to move with a start, or by starts.[Websters]. 11. To flout with contempt.[Websters]. 12. Base verb from the following inflections: jerking, jerked, jerks, jerker, jerkers, jerkingly and jerkedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being clotted.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being jarring or shocking. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being vacillating or wavering. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being flickering. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being fluctuating. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being cussed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being cramped. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being lobed.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
"JERKED" is a common misspelling or typo for: jerker. |
Date "JERKED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1466. (references) |
Specialty Definition: jerk
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Verb] To thrust out; to thrust with a sudden effort; to give a sudden pull, twitch, thrust or push, as, to jerk one under the ribs; to jerk one with the elbow.. | 2: [Verb] To throw with a quick, smart motion; as, to jerk a stone. We apply this word to express the mode of throwing to a little distance by drawing the arm back of the body, and thrusting it forward against the side or hip, which stops the arm suddenly.. | 3: [Verb] To accost eagerly.. | 4: [Noun] A short sudden thrust, push or twitch; a striking against something with a short quick motion; as a jerk of the elbow. His jade gave him a jerk,. | 5: [Noun] A sudden spring. Lobsters swim by jerks.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Aerospace | A vector that specifies the time rate of change of the acceleration; the third derivative of displacement with respect to time. (references) | ||
| Environment | Jerk (GJ). (references) | ||
| MultiLingual Slang | Gujarati (chootio), Slovak (chuj), Spanish (cutre), Basque (kabroa, kabroi), Polish (kutas), Dutch (Paardelul), Ukrainian (podonok), Dutch (teringlijer). (references) | ||
| Transportation | The time rate of change of acceleration or deceleration. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Etymology 1] (intransitive) To make a sudden uncontrolled movement. (references) | 2: [Etymology 1] (obsolete) To beat, to hit. (references) | 3: [Etymology 1] (obsolete) To throw. (references) | 4: [Etymology 1] (physics, engineering) The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time. (references) | 5: [Etymology 1] (transitive) To give a quick, often unpleasant tug or shake. (references) | 6: [Etymology 1] (UK, slang, vulgar) To masturbate. (references) | 7: [Etymology 1] (US, slang, pejorative) A person with unlikable qualities and behavior, typically mean, self-centered or disagreeable, and often not very intelligent. (references) | 8: [Etymology 1] A quick, often unpleasant tug or shake. When I yell "OK," give the mooring line a good jerk!. (references) | 9: [Etymology 1] A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body. (references) | 10: [Etymology 2] (Caribbean) A rich, spicy Jamaican marinade. (references) | 11: [Etymology 2] (Caribbean) Meat cured by jerking; charqui. Jerk chicken is a local favorite. (references) | 12: [Etymology 2] To cure (meat) by cutting it into strips and drying it, originally in the sun. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
Common Expressions: JERKED
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Jerked meat | Meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: jerk
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| A jerk | MultiLingual Slang | Dutch (pleurislaaier). (references) | |
| Circle jerk | Slang | An event where a group of males stand facing each other in a circle while masturbating. (references) | |
| Cly the jerk | Slang in 1811 | CLY THE JERK: To be whipped. CANT. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
| Don't be a jerk | MultiLingual Slang | Polish (Nie ba, dz' kutas), French (déconner), Swedish (runka), Polish (branzlowac'), Italian (Farsi una pipa), Swedish (handtralla), Norwegian (ronk), English (whack off). (references) | |
| Jerk off | Slang | To masturbate, an idiot. (references) | |
| Jerk off someone else | MultiLingual Slang | Esperanto (onanigi, onani), English (dickwad, come stain, cum stain). (references) | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: jerk | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Jerk | 28 | Ankle jerk reflex | 2 | |
| The Jerk (House episode) | 12 | Clean and jerk | 11 | |
| The Jerk | 12 | Cool Jerk | 10 | |
| Clean and jerk | 11 | Hypnic jerk | 10 | |
| Cool Jerk | 10 | Jamaican jerk spice | 10 | |
| Hypnic jerk | 10 | Jaw jerk reflex | 4 | |
| Jamaican jerk spice | 10 | Jerk | 28 | |
| Jerk It Out | 8 | Jerk (album) | 6 | |
| Jerk Out | 7 | Jerk (alternative meanings) | 3 | |
| Jerk (album) | 6 | Jerk (band) | 6 | |
| Jerk (band) | 6 | Jerk It Out | 8 | |
| Rainbow Jerk | 5 | Jerk Out | 7 | |
| Once a Jerk, Always a Jerk | 5 | Once a Jerk, Always a Jerk | 5 | |
| Railroad Jerk | 4 | Pain Jerk | 2 | |
| Soda jerk | 4 | Railroad Jerk | 4 | |
| Jaw jerk reflex | 4 | Rainbow Jerk | 5 | |
| Jerk (alternative meanings) | 3 | Soda jerk | 4 | |
| Ankle jerk reflex | 2 | The Jerk | 12 | |
| Pain Jerk | 2 | The Jerk (House episode) | 12 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
