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单词 to jerk around
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to jerk around
to jerk around
1. transitive. To grab, to yank around with force; to handle roughly.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > treat violently [verb (transitive)] > treat violently or roughly
to lay hands (or hand) on or upon (also in, to)OE
ransacka1400
attamec1430
ruffle1489
tug1493
to shear against the wool1546
rumble1570
finger1572
to pull about1679
misguggle1814
rowdy1825
to jerk around1833
scrag1835
rough1845
hooligan1898
roughhouse1898
savage1899
to rough up1915
to treat 'em rough1918
1833 Maryland Republican (Annapolis) 14 Sept. He was seized by the breast and jerked around by Mr. Danahay.
1859 Indiana Farmer Mar. 404/1 Did you not see him take the good man by the colar [sic], and push and jerk him around as though he intended to hurt him?
1948 Washington Post 21 Jan. The policemen..grabbed Clegg... They probably jerked him around a little.
1995 P. Bourgois In Search of Respect (1997) i. 38 And they take your arm like this... And they jerk it around.
2008 R. C. Heimbuch Five Brothers in Arms viii. 42 I checked the guns... They had received considerable rough handling. I had jerked them around rather violently.
2. colloquial (originally and chiefly North American).
a. transitive. To mess about with; to waste (a person's) time; to inconvenience, make trouble for.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > inconvenience > affect with inconvenience [verb (transitive)]
trouble1516
misease1530
incommodatea1575
inconveniencea1656
run1697
incommode1702
disannul1794
disconvenience1821
to put about1825
to put out1851
to jerk around1877
to bugger about1921
to dick around1944
to fuck around1955
to bugger around1961
to screw around1967
to fuck about1975
to cock around1990
to dick about1996
to cock about2009
1877 Amer. Socialist 22 Feb. 63/3 Society is too complex to willingly allow men to jerk us around in that uncomfortable way.
1952 Washington Post 26 Feb. (Compl. Capital ed.) 11/1 Hell, from the way you've been jerking me around you don't need me.
1979 G. Chesbro Affair of Sorcerers xix. 308 I think you've all been witched-out, Krowl; Smathers was just jerking around the bunch of you.
2009 J. Kellerman True Detectives xviii. 170 You jerk me around, we're through.
b. intransitive. To mess about; to pass time in a frivolous way, with no definite aim or serious intent; to waste time. Cf. to jack around 2 at jack v.2 Phrasal verbs.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > be idle or unoccupied [verb (intransitive)] > potter or waste time in trifling activity
trifle?a1400
loiterc1400
tiffc1440
tifflec1440
to pick a salad1520
to play the wanton1529
fiddle1530
dauntc1540
piddle1545
dally?1548
pittlea1568
pingle1574
puddle1591
to thrum caps1594
maginate1623
meecha1625
pudder1624
dabble1631
fanfreluche1653
dawdlea1656
taigle17..
niff-naff1728
tiddle1747
peddle1755
gammer1788
quiddle1789
muddle1791
browse1803
niddle1808
poke1811
fal-lal1818
potter1824
footer1825
putter1827
shaffle1828
to fool about1838
mike1838
piffle1847
mess1853
to muck about1856
tinker1856
bohemianize1857
to fool around1860
frivol1866
june1869
muss1876
to muddle about (also around)1877
slummock1877
dicker1888
moodle1893
to fart about1899
to fart about (or around)1899
plouter1899
futz1907
monkey1916
to arse around1919
to play around1929
to fuck around1931
tool1932
frig1933
boondoggle1935
to muck around1935
to screw around1935
to bugger about1937
to bugger around1939
to piss about1943
to dick around1948
to jerk around1953
fart-arse1954
to fanny around1969
slop1973
dork1982
to twat around (or about)1992
to dick about1996
1953 R. Tallant Love & Mrs. Candy 51 ‘How you be?’ ‘I'm just jerking around.’
1973 Dominion-News (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1 June 10 a/4 The government is just jerking around like they always do.
1993 Frederick (Maryland) Post 7 Sept. b2/2 Finish the Carroll Creek project. Stop jerking around. Finish it!
2006 Billboard 5 Aug. 25/2 You have to utilize the time you're out here...There's a lot of bands that don't. They just jerk around.
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