'jerky' definitions:
Definition of 'jerky'
From: WordNet
adjective
Lacking a steady rhythm; "an arrhythmic heartbeat" [syn: arrhythmic, jerking, jerky]
adjective
Marked by abrupt transitions; "choppy prose" [syn: choppy, jerky]
adjective
Having or revealing stupidity; "ridiculous anserine behavior"; "a dopey answer"; "a dopey kid"; "some fool idea about rewriting authors' books" [syn: anserine, dopy, dopey, foolish, goosey, goosy, gooselike, jerky]
noun
Meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun [syn: jerky, jerked meat, jerk]
Definition of 'jerky'
From: 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]
Definition of 'jerky'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'jerky'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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