jerk

Etymology 1
Probably from and, from  and. Cognate with 🇨🇬. Related also to.

Noun

 * 1) A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body.
 * 2) * 1856,, , Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
 * The black cloth bestrewn with white beads blew up from time to time, laying bare the coffin. The tired bearers walked more slowly, and it advanced with constant jerks, like a boat that pitches with every wave.
 * 1) A quick tug or shake.
 * 2)  A person with unlikable or obnoxious qualities and behavior, typically mean, self-centered, or disagreeable; an arsehole.
 * 3)  A stupid person; an idiot or fool.
 * 4)  A lift in which the weight is taken with a quick motion from shoulder height to a position above the head with arms fully extended and held there for a brief time.
 * 5)  An act of male masturbation.
 * 6)  An act of satirizing behavior that is, to an extent, common in a community, especially in circlejerk subreddits.
 * 7)  A dance, popular in Western culture in the 1960s, in which the head and upper body is thrown forwards regularly to the beat of the music.
 * 8)  The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time.
 * 9)  A soda jerk.
 * 1)  An act of male masturbation.
 * 2)  An act of satirizing behavior that is, to an extent, common in a community, especially in circlejerk subreddits.
 * 3)  A dance, popular in Western culture in the 1960s, in which the head and upper body is thrown forwards regularly to the beat of the music.
 * 4)  The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time.
 * 5)  A soda jerk.
 * 1)  The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time.
 * 2)  A soda jerk.

Usage notes

 * Jerk is measured in metres per second cubed (m/s3) in SI units, or in feet per second cubed (ft/s3) in imperial units.

Synonyms

 * ,, , , , , , ; see Thesaurus:jerk.
 * , surge, lurch
 * ,, , , , , , ; see Thesaurus:jerk.
 * , surge, lurch
 * , surge, lurch

Translations

 * Arabic: رَعَشَة
 * Bulgarian: рязко движение
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, , , , , , ,
 * Georgian: სპაზმი, კრუნჩხვა, ტოკვა
 * German: Zuckung
 * Icelandic: kippur,
 * Interlingua: spasmo
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Russian:, , ,  ,
 * Spanish: tic,, , repullo
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish: ,


 * Arabic: هَزَّة
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, , kiskaisu
 * French:, ,
 * Georgian: ხელის კვრა, კვრა
 * German:
 * Icelandic: rykkur, kippur
 * Interlingua: succussa
 * Italian: ,
 * Maori: pahiwi
 * Portuguese: puxada,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Turkish: ani hareket


 * Finnish: ,
 * German:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Swedish:
 * Welsh: twpsyn


 * Arabic: or
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:, , , , ,
 * Danish: fjols,
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Esperanto:, idioto,
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French:, , ,
 * German:, , , , , , , , Sackarsch
 * Greek:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian:, , ,
 * Interlingua: vexator
 * Italian:, , , , , buco del culo
 * Macedonian: шутрак
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, , , , ,
 * Spanish:, , , tipejo,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog:
 * Turkish: aşağılık kimse,
 * Urdu: چنڈال


 * Belarusian: рывок
 * Catalan: sobreacceleració
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 加加速度, 急動度
 * Czech: ryv
 * Finnish:, kiihtyvyyden muutos
 * French:
 * German:
 * Indonesian: (from Malay), perubahan percepatan
 * Japanese:, 加加速度
 * Korean: 가가속도
 * Malay:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Turkish: ani hareket


 * Bulgarian: изтласкване


 * Telugu:

Verb

 * 1)  To make a sudden uncontrolled movement.
 * 2)  To give a quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
 * 3)  To masturbate.
 * 4)  To satirize behavior that is, to an extent, common in a community, especially in circlejerk subreddits.
 * 5)  To beat, to hit.
 * 6)  To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand.
 * 7)  To lift using a jerk.
 * 8)  To flout with contempt.
 * 1)  To lift using a jerk.
 * 2)  To flout with contempt.
 * 1)  To flout with contempt.

Translations

 * Arabic: يرتعش
 * Bulgarian:, дръпвам се
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, , ,


 * Arabic: يهز
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:, heilauttaa, heilahduttaa,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Maori: whakanou, whakanounou, pahiwi
 * Russian:, ,
 * Zealandic: snokke


 * Telugu:

Etymology 2
From American, from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  A rich, spicy Jamaican marinade.
 * 2)  Meat (or sometimes vegetables) cured by jerking, in which it is coated in spices and slow-cooked over a fire or grill traditionally composed of green pimento wood positioned over burning coals; charqui.
 * 1)  Meat (or sometimes vegetables) cured by jerking, in which it is coated in spices and slow-cooked over a fire or grill traditionally composed of green pimento wood positioned over burning coals; charqui.

Verb

 * 1) To cure (meat) by cutting it into strips and drying it, originally in the sun.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Finnish:, valmistaa kuivalihaa
 * German:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: ch'arkiy
 * Russian:
 * Tagalog: lukbain

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  dance

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) roe

Verb

 * 1) to expect