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/dʒˈərkɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Jerking n. The act of pulling, pushing, or throwing, with a jerk.

verb

Jerk v. t. To cut into long slices or strips and dry in the sun; as, to jerk beef. See Charqui.

Jerk v. t. (past & past part. jerked; pres. part. jerking)

To beat; to strike. (Obs.)

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.

To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand; as, to jerk a stone.

Jerk v. i.

To make a sudden motion; to move with a start, or by starts.

To flout with contempt.

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Etymology of 'Jerking'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Jerking" Quotes from Famous Books

... deal of jerking and hauling, I found myself on the opposite side, and once more on ...

— The Hunters' Feast - Conversations Around the Camp Fire • Mayne Reid

... Ninian said, jerking his thumb in Henry's direction. "His real name is Quinn, Henry Quinn, but we call him 'Quinny.' At least, Gilbert does, so, of course we do too. And he's Irish, but he isn't a Catholic, and he says Irish ...

— Changing Winds - A Novel • St. John G. Ervine

... once, adding: "Put him to the right of Howard"—a young Philadelphian with a thigh stump, who was likely to die of hemorrhage, and whose jerking nerves I could soothe and quiet better than any ...

— Half a Century • Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm

... past the brown vine-stumps, and the mule-gins above the wells, and the many ducts and gutters which drain the marshes, our animals steaming as they strained at the traces, and the driver jerking about like some frenzied jumping-jack as he forced them on. The pace was almost racing pace, and to be in a race always warms one's blood. I began to share Taltavull's excitement. He was looking at his watch ever and anon, at each time crying that we should have scarcely time to meet ...

— The Recipe for Diamonds • Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne

... certainly knew; but dates were not seen every day in France, while almonds and walnuts were of the quatre mendiants. He preserves the ecorces, which later issues have changed to noyaux, probably in allusion to the jerking practice called Inwa. Again in the "First Shaykh's Story" (vol. i. 27) the "maillet" is mentioned as the means of slaughtering cattle, because familiar to European readers: at the end of the tale it becomes ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton

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