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jerk
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d????k/
- (US) IPA(key): /d???k/
- Rhymes: -??(?)k
Etymology 1
Probably from Middle English yerk (“sudden motion”) and Middle English yerkid (“tightly pulled”), from Old English ?earc (“ready, active, quick”) and Old English ?earcian (“to ready, prepare”). Compare Old English ?earcian (“to prepare, make ready, procure, furnish, supply”). Related to yare.
Alternative forms
- yark
Noun
jerk (plural jerks)
- A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body.
- 1856, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, 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.
- 1856, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
- A quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
- When I yell "OK," give the mooring line a good jerk!
- (US, slang, derogatory) A dull or stupid person.
- (Canada, US, slang, derogatory) A person with unlikable or obnoxious qualities and behavior, typically mean, self-centered, or disagreeable.
- I finally fired him, because he was being a real jerk to his customers, even to some of the staff.
- You really are a jerk sometimes.
- (physics, engineering) The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time.
- (obsolete) A soda jerk.
- (weightlifting) 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.
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
- (sudden movement): jolt, lurch, jump
- (quick tug): yank
- (stupid person): numbskull
- (unlikable person): asshole, bastard, twat, knobhead, tosser, wanker, git, dick; see Thesaurus:jerk.
- (physics, change in acceleration): jolt (British), surge, lurch
Derived terms
- jerkish
- soda jerk
Translations
Verb
jerk (third-person singular simple present jerks, present participle jerking, simple past and past participle jerked)
- (intransitive) To make a sudden uncontrolled movement.
- 1877, Anna Sewell, Black Beauty Chapter 23[1]
- York came to me first, whilst the groom stood at Ginger's head. He drew my head back and fixed the rein so tight that it was almost intolerable; then he went to Ginger, who was impatiently jerking her head up and down against the bit, as was her way now.
- 1877, Anna Sewell, Black Beauty Chapter 23[1]
- (transitive) To give a quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
- (US, slang, vulgar) To masturbate.
- (obsolete) To beat, to hit.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Florio to this entry?)
- (obsolete) To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand.
- to jerk a stone
- (usually transitive, weightlifting) To lift using a jerk.
- (obsolete) To flout with contempt.
Derived terms
- jerk off
- jerksome
Translations
See also
- acceleration
- displacement
- velocity
- jounce
Etymology 2
From American Spanish charquear, from charqui, from Quechua ch'arki.
Noun
jerk (uncountable)
- (Caribbean, Jamaican) A rich, spicy Jamaican marinade.
- (Caribbean, Jamaican) Meat cured by jerking; charqui.
- Jerk chicken is a local favorite.
Related terms
- jerky (noun)
Translations
Verb
jerk (third-person singular simple present jerks, present participle jerking, simple past and past participle jerked)
- To cure (meat) by cutting it into strips and drying it, originally in the sun.
Translations
French
Etymology
From English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d???k/
Noun
jerk m (plural jerks)
- jerk (dance)
Further reading
- “jerk” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Manx
Verb
jerk (verbal noun jerkal, past participle jerkit)
- to expect
Mutation
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bring
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b???/
- Rhymes: -??
Etymology 1
From Middle English bryngen, from Old English bringan (“to bring, lead, bring forth, carry, adduce, produce, present, offer”), from Proto-Germanic *bringan? (“to bring”) (compare West Frisian bringe, Low German bringen, Dutch brengen, German bringen), from Proto-Indo-European *b?renk- (compare Welsh hebrwng (“to bring, lead”), Tocharian B pränk- (“to take away; restrain oneself, hold back”), Latvian brankti (“lying close”), Lithuanian branktas (“whiffletree”)).
Verb
bring (third-person singular simple present brings, present participle bringing, simple past and past participle brought)
- (transitive, ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
- At twilight in the summer […] the mice come out. They […] eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly […] on the floor.
- (transitive, figuratively) To supply or contribute.
- “ […] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
- (transitive) To occasion or bring about.
- The controversial TV broadcast brought a storm of complaints.
- (transitive) To raise (a lawsuit, charges, etc.) against somebody.
- To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.
- It seems so preposterous a thing […] that they do not easily bring themselves to it.
- To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch.
- (baseball) To pitch, often referring to a particularly hard thrown fastball.
Conjugation
Usage notes
- Past brang and past participle brung and broughten forms are sometimes used in some dialects, especially in informal speech.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Onomatopeia.
Interjection
bring
- The sound of a telephone ringing.
Afrikaans
Alternative forms
- breng (archaic)
Etymology
From Dutch bringen, a dialectal variant of standard brengen (“to bring”). Both forms were originally distinct, though related, verbs, but were early on conflated.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /br??/
Verb
bring (present bring, present participle bringende, past participle gebring)
- (transitive) to bring; to deliver
- (transitive) to take; to lead (to another place)
- Bring asseblief hierdie borde kombuis toe.
- Please, take these dishes to the kitchen.
- Bring asseblief hierdie borde kombuis toe.
Derived terms
- uitbring
- wegbring
Danish
Verb
bring
- imperative of bringe
Garo
Etymology
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Noun
bring
- jungle, forest
German
Pronunciation
Verb
bring
- imperative singular of bringen
Middle English
Verb
bring
- Alternative form of bryngen
North Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian bringa, which derives from Proto-Germanic *bringan?. Cognates include West Frisian bringe.
Verb
bring
- (Föhr-Amrum), (Heligoland) to bring
Conjugation
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
bring
- imperative of bringe
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English bryngen, from Old English bringan.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /br??/
Verb
bring (third-person singular present brings, present participle bringin, past brocht, past participle brocht)
- To bring.
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