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JERKY
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Irregular inflected forms: jerkier , jerkiest
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun
Synonyms:
jerk; jerked meat; jerky
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("jerky" is a kind of...):
meat (the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jerky"):
beef jerky (strips of dried beef)
biltong (meat that is salted and cut into strips and dried in the sun)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having or revealing stupidity
Example:
some fool idea about rewriting authors' books
Synonyms:
anserine; dopey; dopy; foolish; gooselike; goosey; goosy; jerky
Classified under:
Similar:
stupid (lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Derivation:
jerk (a dull stupid fatuous person)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Marked by abrupt transitions
Example:
choppy prose
Synonyms:
choppy; jerky
Classified under:
Similar:
sudden (happening without warning or in a short space of time)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Lacking a steady rhythm
Example:
an arrhythmic heartbeat
Synonyms:
arrhythmic; jerking; jerky
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
unsteady (subject to change or variation)
Derivation:
jerk (an abrupt spasmodic movement)
jerkiness (the quality of being spasmodic and irregular)
