| 单词 | jerky |
| 释义 | jerky (once / 4145 pages) 1adj 2n Something that's jerky has a bumpy, lurching kind of rhythm, like a jerky off-road ride in a jeep. Another kind of jerky is dried meat. You could chew your beef jerky to calm yourself on that jerky ride. A jerky carnival ride starts and stops abruptly, and a jerky old movie might be choppy and shaky. When jerky is a noun, it's a dense, chewy type of dried meat. This second kind of jerky is an American word, adapted from the Spanish to originally be charqui, from an Incan root word, ch'arki, literally "dried flesh." WORD FAMILYjerky: jerkier, jerkies, jerkily, jerkiness+/jerk: jerked, jerker, jerking, jerks, jerky/jerker: jerkers/jerking: jerkingly, jerkings USAGE EXAMPLESOur eyes will be beads of dried-up jerky by then, but at least there’s sweet relief on the horizon. Salon(Dec 22, 2016) Mr Coulter was killed when he left a Jerky Chicken restaurant. BBC(Dec 17, 2016) Desperate to hold onto large employers, Connecticut last month offered eight-figure retention inducements to two absurdly large and profitable hedge funds run by jerky libertarians. Slate(Dec 01, 2016) 1 1adj marked by abrupt transitions Syn choppy sudden happening without warning or in a short space of time 2adj lacking a steady rhythm Syn arrhythmic, jerking unsteady subject to change or variation 3adj having or revealing stupidity 2Syn anserine, dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, goosy stupid lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity n meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun Syn|Hypo|Hyper jerk, jerked meat beef jerky strips of dried beef biltongmeat that is salted and cut into strips and dried in the sun meat the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food |
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