different between jerk vs werk

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)

1. 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.

2. A quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.

   When I yell "OK," give the mooring line a good jerk!

3. (US, slang, derogatory) A dull or stupid person.
4. (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.
5. (physics, engineering) The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time.
6. (obsolete) A soda jerk.
7. (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)

1. (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.

2. (transitive) To give a quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
3. (US, slang, vulgar) To masturbate.
4. (obsolete) To beat, to hit.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Florio to this entry?)

5. (obsolete) To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand.

   to jerk a stone

6. (usually transitive, weightlifting) To lift using a jerk.
7. (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)

1. (Caribbean, Jamaican) A rich, spicy Jamaican marinade.
2. (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)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. to expect

Mutation

English

Noun

werk (plural werks)

1. Obsolete form of work.

Anagrams

• w**ker

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???rk/

Etymology 1

From Dutch werk, from Old Dutch *werk, from Proto-Germanic *werk?, from Proto-Indo-European *wér?om.

Noun

werk (plural werke, diminutive werkie)

1. work

Derived terms

• werkboek

Etymology 2

From Dutch werken, from Middle Dutch werken, from Old Dutch wirken, wirkon (“to work, make”), from Proto-Germanic *wirkijan? (“to work, make”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer?-, *wre?- (“to work, act”).

Verb

werk (present werk, present participle werkende, past participle gewerk)

1. work

Related terms

• werker

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??rk/
• Hyphenation: werk
• Rhymes: -?rk

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch werc, from Old Dutch *werk, from Proto-Germanic *werk?, from Proto-Indo-European *wér?om.

Noun

werk n (plural werken, diminutive werkje n)

1. A task, job, chore.

   Het werk dat moest gebeuren, is voltooid. — The thing that must be done is finished.

2. A profession, job, employment, line of work.

   Het werk van Hans is buschauffeur. — The profession of Hans is bus driver.

3. A workplace

   Hans kwam vandaag te laat aan op het werk. — Today Hans arrived to the workplace too late.

4. A product, creation; production, output, result of work.

   Het werk van Magritte zal op de veiling verkocht worden. — The work of Magritte will be sold by auction.

5. (dialectal) tow, oakum

   Synonym: hede

Synonyms

• arbeid

Derived terms

- output, product(ion)

Related terms

• werken

Descendants

• Afrikaans: werk

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

werk

1. first-person singular present indicative of werken
2. imperative of werken

Middle English

Alternative forms

• wirk, work

Etymology

From Old English weorc. See English work for more.

Noun

werk (plural werks)

1. work
2. sexual intercourse
   • 1422, James Yonge (translator), Secretum Secretorum:

References

• “werk, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *werk?, whence also Old High German werc, Old Norse verk.

Noun

werk n

1. work

Declension

Scots

Noun

werk (plural werkis)

1. Obsolete form of wirk (“work”).

References

• “wirk” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.