jerky

jerky
Synonyms and related words:
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

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  • Jerky — can refer to: *Jerky (food), a type of dried meat *Jerky (game), a card game *The Jerky Boys, a prank phone call performance group …   Wikipedia

  • 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] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 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] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • jerky — [adj] uncontrolled bouncy, bumpy, convulsive, fitful, jarring, jolting, lurching, paroxysmal, rough, shaking, shaky, spasmodic, tremulous, twitching, twitchy, uncontrollable; concept 482 Ant. fluid, smooth …   New thesaurus

  • jerky — ► ADJECTIVE (jerkier, jerkiest) ▪ characterized by abrupt stops and starts. DERIVATIVES jerkily adverb jerkiness noun …   English terms dictionary

  • jerky — jerky1 [jʉr′kē] adj. jerkier, jerkiest 1. characterized or moving by jerks; making sudden starts and stops or spasmodic movements ☆ 2. Slang foolish, mean, contemptible, etc. jerkily adv. jerkiness n. ☆ jerky2 [jʉr′kē ] n. [ …   English World dictionary

  • Jerky — Tiras condimentadas de jerky. El jerky (del quechua charqui, ‘quemar [carne]’)[1] [2] es …   Wikipedia Español

  • jerky — jerk|y1 [ˈdʒə:ki US ə:r ] adj [Date: 1800 1900; Origin: JERK2] jerky movements are rough, with many starts and stops ≠ ↑smooth ▪ His skin was dry and hot, his breathing rapid and jerky. ▪ The bus came to a jerky halt. >jerkily adv… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • jerky — I UK [ˈdʒɜː(r)kɪ] / US [ˈdʒɜrkɪ] adjective Word forms jerky : adjective jerky comparative jerkier superlative jerkiest a) a jerky movement consists of several separate short movements b) a jerky ride is rough and shakes you in an unpleasant way… …   English dictionary

  • Jerky — Der Begriff Jerky hat mehrere Bedeutungen: eine Fleischzubereitung, englisch für Charqui Der Name mehrerer Orte in der Ukraine: Siedlung in der Oblast Tscherkassy, Rajon Katerynopil, siehe Jerky (Katerynopil) Dorf in der Oblast Poltawa, Rajon… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • jerky — adj. Jerky is used with these nouns: ↑motion, ↑movement Jerky is used after these nouns: ↑beef …   Collocations dictionary

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