Jerky

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  jerky \jerk"y\, n. [Corrupted from Peruv. charqui dried beef.]
     Meat, especially beef, that has been cut in strips and dried;
     meat that has been jerked; see first {jerk}, v.; as, beef
     jerky
     [PJC]



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  jerky \jerk"y\, a.
     1. Moving by jerks and starts; characterized by abrupt
        transitions; as, a jerky vehicle; a jerky style.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Foolish; ridiculous; stupid. [slang]
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  jerky
       adj : not having a steady rhythm; "an arrhythmic heartbeat" [syn:
             {arrhythmic}, {jerking}, {unsteady}]
       n : meat cut in strips and dried in the sun [syn: {jerked meat}]
       [also: {jerkiest}, {jerkier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  154 Moby Thesaurus words for "jerky":
     aspic, barbecue, beef, beef extract, beef tea, boiled meat,
     bouilli, bouillon, broken, broken off, bully, bully beef,
     capricious, careening, cataclysmic, catchy, changeable, changing,
     charqui, chipped beef, chopped-off, choppy, civet, convulsive,
     decousu, desultory, deviating, deviative, deviatory, different,
     disastrous, disconnected, discontinued, discontinuous, discrete,
     disjunctive, disorderly, divaricate, divergent, diversified,
     diversiform, dried beef, eccentric, eclamptic, episodic, erose,
     erratic, fidgety, fitful, flesh, flickering, fluctuating,
     forcemeat, game, ground beef, guttering, hachis, halting,
     hamburger, hash, herky-jerky, heteroclite, immethodical, impulsive,
     incoherent, inconsistent, inconstant, intermittent, intermitting,
     interrupted, irregular, jagged, jerking, jiggety, joint,
     jugged hare, jumpy, lurching, meat, menue viande, mercurial, mince,
     motley, mutable, nonconformist, noncontinuous, nonlinear,
     nonsequential, nonserial, nonstandard, nonuniform, orgasmic,
     parenthetic, paroxysmal, pastrami, patchy, pemmican, pluralistic,
     pot roast, ragged, rambling, roast, roast beef, rough, salt beef,
     saltatory, sausage meat, scrapple, scrappy, seismic, snatchy,
     spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, sporadic, spotty,
     staggering, suet, suspended, twitchety, twitching, twitchy,
     uncertain, unconnected, unequable, unequal, uneven, unjoined,
     unmethodical, unmetrical, unorthodox, unregular, unrhythmical,
     unsettled, unstable, unsteady, unsuccessive, unsystematic,
     ununiform, upheaving, variable, variegated, variform, various,
     varying, veering, vellicative, venison, viande, wandering,
     wavering, wobbling, wobbly