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Jerky   /dʒˈərki/   Listen
Jerky

adjective
1.
Lacking a steady rhythm.  Synonyms: arrhythmic, jerking.
2.
Marked by abrupt transitions.  Synonym: choppy.
3.
Having or revealing stupidity.  Synonyms: anserine, dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, goosy.  "A dopey answer" , "A dopey kid" , "Some fool idea about rewriting authors' books"
noun
1.
Meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun.  Synonyms: jerk, jerked meat.



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"Jerky" Quotes from Famous Books



... across him," responded the officer, in his usual short, jerky way. "Lucky to catch you here, too, before you got ...
— Dave Dashaway and his Hydroplane • Roy Rockwood

... fell. Then another. Two rushed together, locked in each other's grip, desperately fighting because of some crazy, deranged thought-impulse. They swayed and tore at each other until both wilted and sank inert. Another tottered with jerky steps to the edge of the roof and plunged headlong, crashing with a great metal clatter to the stone paving ...
— Astounding Stories, July, 1931 • Various

... easy as facile. And not all the grace of internals can atone for external monotony. That trick—that full stop at the end of nearly every fourth line—it impairs the charm of the music and renders its flow jerky; coming, as it does, like an ever-repeated blow, it grows wearisome to the ...
— Alone • Norman Douglas

... up!" shouted the victim, in a jerky, spasmodic manner, as the words were helped out; "that ain't the right way to fight: ...
— Through Forest and Fire - Wild-Woods Series No. 1 • Edward Ellis

... were rapidly depleted. The result was that they had to depend more and more upon a diet of meat. Men can hold up fairly well on meat alone, particularly if it has a fair amount of fat, but the effort of hunting and drying the flesh into jerky served to cut ...
— The Sky Line of Spruce • Edison Marshall


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