jerky
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Jerky
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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jerky1 (ˈdʒɜːkɪ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj , jerkier, jerkiest | |
| characterized by jerks; spasmodic | |
| 'jerkily1 | |
| —adv | |
| 'jerkiness1 | |
| —n | |
| jerky2 (ˈdʒɜːkɪ) | |
| —n | |
| another word for jerk | |
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Word Origin & History
jerky
1850, Amer.Eng., from Amer.Sp. charqui "jerked meat," from Quechua ch'arki "dried flesh." The verb jerk "to cure meat by cutting into long thin slices and drying in the sun" is recorded from 1707.
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Example sentences
Sometimes the video is a bit jerky, but that is normally due to my connection.
Others get motion sickness from the jerky camera style.
About all his reactions there is that jerky quickness which comes of long vigilance.
Its primary purpose is to fix all of those jerky, balky, miscalculated-momentum issues.
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