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Definition of herky-jerky in English: herky-jerkyadjectiveˈhəːkɪˌdʒəːkiˌhərkiˈdʒərki North American informal Characterized by or moving in sudden stops and starts. herky-jerky black and white newsreels Example sentencesExamples - It was a little herky-jerky, but I've ridden with Jack before, and he was kind of the same way.
- It's a staccato language of enigmatic hand gestures, flailing arms, touching oneself, herky-jerky starts and stops, plunging into space, crashing, spinning, jumping back up.
- His hands shake constantly; throw in his current addictions to coffee and cigars and you get transport that is, at best, fumbling and herky-jerky, at worst, upside down in a ditch, surrounded by flashing lights.
- As he gets down across the half court and approaches the top of the key he begins to go into a series of herky-jerky dribble moves probably either palming and or caring the ball a good half dozen times during his routine.
- The trade-off for a short running length is a herky-jerky narrative that rarely moves smoothly.
- The asymmetrical rhythms, shifting time signatures and registers, and the once-again intense chromatics jar us back to the herky-jerky puppets as they summon their ersatz dance skills.
- After a rather stunning and disturbing opening sequence, Lumumba really gets going with a disconcertingly sloppy and herky-jerky sequence of biographical background info on our subject.
- Last night, before bed, I was combing my daughter's hair and she got away from me, running herky-jerky around the coffee table, laughing like the Fourth of July.
- In fact, the sobriety, maturity and patience offered a most happy contrast to the herky-jerky behavior of society's supposedly mature ‘opinion makers.’
- No point guard has as much body control as Payton, able to throw off opponents with his herky-jerky drives forward and sudden stops.
- Norman unleashes torrents of sap, better suited to network TV than to thoughtful cinema, all presented with a herky-jerky camera technique, intended to convey… documentary feel?
- Shot from behind and from the side, Auteuil gives a steely performance, registering the turmoil of this deeply false character in tiny eye movements and through herky-jerky body language.
- Reef managers mediate between the values of developers and the values of conservationists in an ongoing herky-jerky process in which it seems to both sides that they are taking three steps forward and two steps back.
- Deficiency of GABA outflow, e.g., Huntington's disease, is characterized by herky-jerky and extraneous movements.
- The widespread use of overdubbing and the preponderance of drum tracks with herky-jerky tempos and wayward rhythms has become a prominent style in pop and R&B that emphasizes rhythmic agility over vocal expression.
- In Afghanistan, the networks scrambled to equip their war correspondents with satellite video phones that transmitted shaky, often fuzzy and herky-jerky video images along with the voice reports.
- On the mound, Willis relied on a windmill windup with a herky-jerky motion and a puzzling assortment of pitches to set National League hitters on their ears for a couple of months until he ran into a slump in mid-August.
- There is a strange, herky-jerky character to her assault, almost as if we were watching an old, speeded-up silent film, that at once distances us from the action and yet makes it more horrible.
- If people are turning off network television coverage, which at least offers quality sound and images, it's beyond me why an online site would expect to draw an audience with herky-jerky Internet video and intermittent audio.
- His spoken word bit about being on a plane bound for Manila and asking for curried chicken as the pilots lose control is delivered in a series of herky-jerky inflections and with enormous relish.
Origin 1970s: reduplication of jerky. Rhymes jerky, mirky, murky, perky, quirky, smirky, turkey Definition of herky-jerky in US English: herky-jerkyadjectiveˌhərkiˈdʒərkiˌhərkēˈjərkē North American informal Characterized by or moving in sudden stops and starts. there were no windup toys, no herky-jerky contraptions Example sentencesExamples - It's a staccato language of enigmatic hand gestures, flailing arms, touching oneself, herky-jerky starts and stops, plunging into space, crashing, spinning, jumping back up.
- In fact, the sobriety, maturity and patience offered a most happy contrast to the herky-jerky behavior of society's supposedly mature ‘opinion makers.’
- In Afghanistan, the networks scrambled to equip their war correspondents with satellite video phones that transmitted shaky, often fuzzy and herky-jerky video images along with the voice reports.
- His hands shake constantly; throw in his current addictions to coffee and cigars and you get transport that is, at best, fumbling and herky-jerky, at worst, upside down in a ditch, surrounded by flashing lights.
- The trade-off for a short running length is a herky-jerky narrative that rarely moves smoothly.
- No point guard has as much body control as Payton, able to throw off opponents with his herky-jerky drives forward and sudden stops.
- Norman unleashes torrents of sap, better suited to network TV than to thoughtful cinema, all presented with a herky-jerky camera technique, intended to convey… documentary feel?
- Last night, before bed, I was combing my daughter's hair and she got away from me, running herky-jerky around the coffee table, laughing like the Fourth of July.
- If people are turning off network television coverage, which at least offers quality sound and images, it's beyond me why an online site would expect to draw an audience with herky-jerky Internet video and intermittent audio.
- Shot from behind and from the side, Auteuil gives a steely performance, registering the turmoil of this deeply false character in tiny eye movements and through herky-jerky body language.
- His spoken word bit about being on a plane bound for Manila and asking for curried chicken as the pilots lose control is delivered in a series of herky-jerky inflections and with enormous relish.
- Reef managers mediate between the values of developers and the values of conservationists in an ongoing herky-jerky process in which it seems to both sides that they are taking three steps forward and two steps back.
- Deficiency of GABA outflow, e.g., Huntington's disease, is characterized by herky-jerky and extraneous movements.
- There is a strange, herky-jerky character to her assault, almost as if we were watching an old, speeded-up silent film, that at once distances us from the action and yet makes it more horrible.
- It was a little herky-jerky, but I've ridden with Jack before, and he was kind of the same way.
- As he gets down across the half court and approaches the top of the key he begins to go into a series of herky-jerky dribble moves probably either palming and or caring the ball a good half dozen times during his routine.
- The asymmetrical rhythms, shifting time signatures and registers, and the once-again intense chromatics jar us back to the herky-jerky puppets as they summon their ersatz dance skills.
- On the mound, Willis relied on a windmill windup with a herky-jerky motion and a puzzling assortment of pitches to set National League hitters on their ears for a couple of months until he ran into a slump in mid-August.
- The widespread use of overdubbing and the preponderance of drum tracks with herky-jerky tempos and wayward rhythms has become a prominent style in pop and R&B that emphasizes rhythmic agility over vocal expression.
- After a rather stunning and disturbing opening sequence, Lumumba really gets going with a disconcertingly sloppy and herky-jerky sequence of biographical background info on our subject.
Origin 1970s: reduplication of jerky. |